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forced to undergo the hardships of the peddler’s wagon or other 
such labor, which is usually accompanied by insufficient food 
and often much brutality. The names of the first officers are 
not prominent in the horse world, and we fear but little will 
come of the effort. 
The Iowa Veterinary Law Passed. —Dr. W. A. Heck, 
of Maquoketa, Iowa, writes : u I presume you have already been 
informed of the passage of our bill regulating the practice of 
veterinary medicine in Iowa. We succeeded in getting it 
through the senate with some amendments, and while it is not 
what we had hoped for in all ways, we are jubilant over the vic¬ 
tory, and feel that we have made a good start. It seems the 
vital part of the bill (the provisions for a board of examiners) 
was not altered, and in this we have as good a clause as most 
States now possess.” [The bill as presented was published in 
full in the March Review.—Editor.] 
Phenomenal Sale of Horses. —The first spring consign¬ 
ment of harness horses by Messrs. Tichenor & Co., was dis¬ 
posed of by auction at the American Horse Exchange, New 
York, on Wednesday, April 18, and we are safe in the state¬ 
ment that the prices obtained were far in excess of any similar 
event in the history of this country, and perhaps in the world. 
The horses were for the most part trotting bred, many standard, 
registered, and with records or fast trials ; but they were not 
toffered so much for the quality of speed as for all-around ac¬ 
tion, conformation, and manners. They were trained to the 
minute, perfectly bitted, and could “go fast and high.” It 
transpired that they not only went high in action, but also in 
price, for “The Turk,” a stag of grand conformation and ac¬ 
tion, with a trial of 2:17^, brought the unprecedented price of 
$7800, and from this they ranged downward, thirty-nine head 
averaging $1200, outstripping all records. A few days later 
the trotting-bred coach horse, Red Cloud, was sold privately to 
Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, for $10,000. 
A Parturient Freak in a Bitch. —There came within 
the observation of the junior editor of the Review a month or 
two ago the following circumstance: iV hybrid fox-terrier bitch, 
about three years old, was pregnant, but what kind of dog had 
served her was unknown, as she had the liberty of the streets 
of Brooklyn at all times. When the close of gestation was near 
at hand, she sought a well-bedded unused stall in the stable of 
her owner in which to undergo the parturient act. On Mon¬ 
day morning the stableman noticed that she was very uneasy, 
