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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Official statistics show that Great Britain has sent 91,600 
horses to South Africa for the use of the army operating there. 
The horses have been bought in the United States, Canada, the 
Argentine, Syria and indeed wherever they could be had for 
reasonable figures in any quantity. 
Iowa Veterinary Examining Board. —Governor Shaw, 
of Iowa, has made the following appointments to constitute the 
Board of Veterinary Examiners under the recent law regulat¬ 
ing the practice of veterinary medicine in that State : Drs. S. H. 
Johnson, of Carroll ; H. E. Talbott, of Des Moines, and W. A. 
Heck, of Maquoketa. 
The statistics issued by the Government indicate that at 
Jan. 1, 1900, the chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, etc., in the 
United States had a value of $500,000,000. The number of 
eggs laid were estimated at 1,504,000,000 dozen—a sum too 
vast for the comprehension of the human mind. 
The American jockeys are showing their English cousins 
how to get speed out of race-horses. On two occasions this sea¬ 
son the little handful of American riders won every race run 
at one of the meetings, in some instances finishing one, two, 
three. 
Charles Bachman, former owner of the famous Stony 
Ford Stock 1? arm, and breeder of some of the most famous 
trotting horses of the American turf, died recently of heart dis¬ 
ease. Wm. C. Whitney has purchased Stony Ford and will 
breed thoroughbreds upon a large scale. 
It is estimated by the automobile manufacturers that it 
costs fifteen cents a mile to furnish the large pneumatic rubber 
tires as required by vehicles the size of a coach. Eiverymen 
compute that a coach kept for public hire will average 25 miles 
a day. At this rate it will cost $3.75 per day for rubber tires 
alone ; this is not half of the expense necessary to operate one. 
At one of the New York markets where Hebrew dealers 
buy poultry and vegetables a system of poisoning the horses 
used by the dealers has been going on until some sixtv have 
died. Dr. George Cohen, of Division Street, treated a number 
of the cases, and from the symptoms presented gave the opin¬ 
ion that arsenic was being used. Professor Friedburg, the 
chemist, being called to analyze the contents of the stomach of 
a number of the cases found arsenic in each one. 
The Capsule Method of Impregnation seems to be 
getting popular, as orders for capsules have recently been re¬ 
ceived in this country from England, France and other conn- 
