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for veterinary surgeons to take charge of cargoes of mules and 
horses from New Orleans to South Africa. The terms offered 
were $250, first-class passage to New Orleans, expenses while 
there, passage to the Cape and back to place of residence in 
America. 
A NEW theory is being exploited by a Texas stockman re¬ 
garding the spreading of Texas fever infection among cattle. 
It is now said that the matter from the diseased heels of cattle 
suffering from the fever spreads the germs and if some lotion 
could be discovered or compounded to heal the feet or make 
them at least aseptic, all danger would be done away with.— 
Breeder's Gazette. 
The u Climax ” Rubber Hoof Pad, made by the Consol¬ 
idated Hoof Pad Co., of 18 Vesey Street, New York, stands to¬ 
day in the front rank, having reached this position among its 
competitors through its scientific construction and the use of a 
high grade rubber. In shoeing with this pad one comes very 
near to nature’s scheme in the physiology of the functions of 
the foot. When shod with the “ Climax ” the bearing on the 
hoof is perfect, the pressure being on the frog and wall of the 
hoof (no sole pressure), and consequently insuring perfect circu¬ 
lation and a healthy condition. Owing to the high grade rub¬ 
ber used, the “ Climax ” wears most satisfactorily and affords a 
soft cushion for the frog, counteracting the evils produced by 
the necessary use of the iron shoe and of the artificial roads of 
the present day; in fact, it converts the paved street into a nat¬ 
ural field. As the use of this pad will prevent as well as cure 
contraction, it is as necessary for a sound horse as a sore one. 
Remember, it is the u Cl;max.” 
Interstate Association of Live Stock Sanitary 
Boards. —The annual meeting of this association was held 
Oct. 3 and 4 at Louisville, Ky. Resolutions were passed de¬ 
ploring the prevalence of tuberculosis among cattle and cholera 
among swine and providing for the making of an effort to secure 
federal legislation to stamp them both out. Dr. Salmon, who 
was present, representing the Department of Agriculture, stated 
that the Department would at the next session of Congress ask 
for the passage of a law prohibiting the shipment of diseased 
cattle from one State to the other, thus solidifying and strength¬ 
ening the efforts of individual States in this line. J. H. Brown, 
Kalamazoo, Mich., President of the Michigan Live Stock 
Board, stated that he had tested cattle owned at all of the asy¬ 
lums in that State, finding much tuberculosis, and that in one 
