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NOTICES. NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
NOTICES. 
VETERINARIANS WANTED. 
Mr. R. F. Myers, of Altoona, Pa., writes asking for a young 
graduate to start practice in that town. He says the place has 
5,000 inhabitants, and no veterinarian within one hundred 
miles. 
Mr. Fred D. Nowell, of North Platte, Neb., writes to the 
Breeders' Gazette on the same subject. His letter, being kindly re¬ 
ferred to us by Hr. N. Paaren, says, “ There are a great many 
horses in this and adjoining counties, among which are some of 
a good class, and there seems to be an effort to improve in breed, 
size, etc. There is a good opening for a veterinary surgeon. 
. . . I will undertake to introduce him to all the stockmen.” 
MEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Caffeine is highly spoken of as a substitute for digitalis. 
Glanders. —New cases of glanders in Illinois continue to be 
reported by the State Veterinarian. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia. —Reports of the recent outbreaks of con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia in Staten Island and Pennsylvania show 
some decided measures should be adopted for the eradication of 
this disease. 
Short Period of Gestation. —My Jersey cow, Lady Wel¬ 
lington, five years old, dropped her calf August 3, 1883. She 
was served again August 12, and on May 2, 1884, dropped a fully 
developed bull calf. The cow and calf are all right. That makes 
two calves in one day short of nine months.—E. S. H., Towanda, 
Pa .—Country Gentleman. 
Simple Healing Remedy. —Human skin and that of young 
rabbits have been successfully applied in small pieces to large 
healing surfaces iu wounds. Dr. Wilson, however, in the Medical 
Mews, claims to have obtained very much better results from the 
use of the internal membrane of hen’s eggs. The egg should be 
fresh and warm. 
