NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
“ Enclosed find $3 for your valuable Review. Consider 
me one of your regular subscribers.”— Wm. C. Wilson , V. S ., 
Findlay , Ohio. 
Arrangements are being made for a joint meeting of the 
Iowa and Nebraska Associations, to take place Oct. 18 and 19, 
with a programme of papers and a good big clinic. This does 
not take the place of Iowa’s usual winter meeting. 
A Veterinary Medical Register of New Jersey is 
being prepared by Dr. W111. Herbert Lowe from the official 
records of the county clerks of the twenty-one counties of the 
State. 
I have taken The Review since its first publication (No. 
1, Vol. 1), and consider it of far greater value to the veterinary 
profession than all the text books published, as it keeps us en¬ 
tirely up to the times. Have not lost a number since its first 
publication, and would be entirely lost without it.— Frank 
Traver , D. V. A., Bridgeport , Conn. 
The cry from the market place continually is that exporters 
cannot find enough good horses to meet their wants. Prices are 
as high as ever for all that will measure up to the necessary 
standard, but the common lots are feeling the competition from 
the large shipments of range horses, which are meeting with 
considerable favor and are finding a remunerative market abroad. 
Evidently the brand has lost its “hoodoo” character.—( Breeder's 
Gazetted) 
Rush Orders to Buy Heavy Horses for Great 
Britain. — Chicago , Sept. 27. —Barge exports of heavy draft 
horses to Eondon will be made the latter part of the week. 
Orders by cable were received at the Pinion Stock \ ards yester¬ 
day to buy up all the 1200 pound “gunners” the western 
market afforded and to make arrangements for immediate 
shipment. The arrivals are wanted for the South African 
campaign, and the commission was marked “ rush ” and 
“ imperative.” 
Decrease in the Number of Beef Cattle.— According 
to figures furnished by the Department of Agriculture at Wash¬ 
ington the number of beef cattle in the LTnited States has de¬ 
creased since 1890 from 37,000,000 head to 28,000,000 head. 
This reduction of 9,000,000 animals has been accompanied by 
an increase of about 14,000,000 in the country’s inhabitants, so 
that now there are only 365 steers to each 1000 of population, 
