NEWS AND ITEMS. 
957 
“It is estimated that in the first five years of the twentieth 
century the enormous sum of $100,000,000 will be expended 
for automobiles.”— {Item, going rounds of the press.) It is also 
estimated that at the close of this period of automobillions that 
the public will be so surfeited that their abandonment will 
follow in the next half decade for all practical purposes. 
The average life of usefulness of an American horse in the 
British Army in South Africa is said to be six weeks. Ten 
thousand of such animals are being transported to that country 
every month, and the fear is expressed by the English repre¬ 
sentatives that the American supply will not hold out much 
longer. 
Dr. J. C. Callander, a well-known veterinary surgeon of 
Parkersburg, W. Va., while administering a physic ball to a 
horse on January 18 received a slight abrasion of the skin on 
his hand. The following day the horse died, having developed 
all the symptons of a pure case of rabies. The Doctor immedi¬ 
ately left for Chicago, and received treatment at the Pasteur 
Institute in that city. Several horses and cows have since died 
of rabies in Parkersburg. 
The Post-Graduate Course at the New York State 
Veterinary College. —The following veterinarians are or 
have been in attendance upon the short course for veteri¬ 
narians at Ithaca during the winter : E. B. Doyle, V. S., 
Moravia, N. Y.; A. S. Morrison, V. S., Chesterville, Ontario, 
Can.; Herbert Killps, V. S., Batavia, N. Y.; Mark D. Williams, 
D. V. S., Middleport, N. Y.; Daniel M. Kellogg, V. S., Earnum, 
N. Y.; T. S. Childs, V. S., Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; W. H. Salis¬ 
bury, V. S., Clifton Springs, N. Y.; E. E. Vorhis, V. S., Owego, 
N. Y.; W. G. Dodds, V. S., Canandaigua, N. Y.; O. B. French, 
V. S., Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
Horses at the Pan-American. —Superintendent F. A. 
Converse announces that he is planning to accommodate 1000 
horses at the coming Pan-American Exposition. The horse 
show will not be held until October. The breeds that will be 
recognized are the Thoroughbred, standard-bred, French Coach, 
Cleveland Bay, Oldenberg, and other German Coachers, Hack¬ 
ney, Morgan, Arab, Belgian, Percheron, Clydesdale, Shire, 
French Draft, Suffolk. Shetland ponies and classes will be 
provided for jacks, jennets and mules. A feature of the equine 
exhibit will be the classes for cavalry and artillery purposes. 
Acetic Acid Fluid Extracts. —Dr. T. S. Childs, of Sara¬ 
toga Springs, N. Y., writes as follows : “ I have used the fluid 
