NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
The attendance at the Chicago Veterinary College this 
session is thirty-five students. 
Dr. James Wilson, of St. Joseph, Mo., is spending a few 
weeks at his old home near Toronto, Canada. 
Veterinarian U. B. McCurdy, formerly of Topeka, Kans., 
is now a “ Mexican Haciendado,’’ City of Mexico. 
Dr. James S. Cattanach, Sr., sent in his resignation to 
the last meeting of the New York County Society. 
Dr. M. J. Treacy, of Fort Meade, South Dakota, has gone 
to Cuba with the Eighth U. S. Cavalry, as legimental veterinary 
surgeon. 
Dr. Tait S. Butler, of Starkville, Miss., has sold his stock 
and farm paper and is contemplating entering veterinary prac¬ 
tice again. 
Dr. Elishu Hanshew, of Brooklyn, has been bereaved by 
the loss of his father, which occurred in Eondon in the early 
part of January. 
The United States College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
Washington, D. C., has fourteen students in attendance upon 
the present session. 
Dr. H. M. Batchelder, who has been in practice at Spring- 
field, Ill., for the past seven years, has been appointed as Assis¬ 
tant Meat Inspector, B. A. L, Omaha, Neb. 
On the Chicago market in January $320 was commanded 
twice by high-class draft horses—one a grade Clydesdale from 
Wisconsin, the other a big gelding of Shire blood from Illinois. 
Dr. W. N. D. Bird, formerly stationed at Arkansas City, 
in the Quarantine service, has been transferred to Nashville, to 
succeed Dr. T. A. Geddes, who is now stationed in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 
Dr. Robert W. Ellis, of New York City, the efficient 
Secretary of the County Veterinary Association, was ill with the 
grip for the first week in January, but is attending to his ex¬ 
tensive practice again. 
Dr. George R. White, of Nashville, who was appointed to 
a position in the Government meat inspection service, has 
declined, having found practice' so good of late that the official 
position has lost its temptation. 
The Leavitt Dehorner is a scientific instrument whose 
popularity increases as familiarity with it grows. The Leavitt 
