HOW GOLDEN-KODS HA.Y BE POISONOUS. 
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follow the suggestion, as well as interesting his representative 
in the manifest injustice which has been done his constitu¬ 
ents. The Bill is known as “ An Act to amend sections 1081 
and 1127 of the Code of Civil Procedure, being Senate Bill 
No. 227.” An act to enable James Wixon, of Steuben County, 
to practice veterinary medicine and surgery as a profession, 
has passed the House, and is now before the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee of the Senate, of which Senator Lexow is chairman. 
O’Shea states that this man is entirely unworthy, and advises 
a vigorous protest by veterinarians throughout the State. 
Massachusetts Cattle Commission.— We have received * 
the report of this Commission, which is most exhaustive. 
That portion which refers to the tuberculin test is especially 
interesting, showing, as it does, the experience of the stock- 
keeper with reference to the effect of the inoculations upon 
the milk secretion. The letters received in answer to their 
circular of inquiry numbered 243, of which only 45 were un¬ 
favorable to the test. 
We regret to announce the serious illness of Prof. R. S. 
Huidekoper, of the Journal of Comparative Medicine , from 
pleuro-pneumonia, at his home in this city. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
HOW GOLDEN-RODS MAY BE POISONOUS. 
By H. H. Rusby, M.D., 
Professor of Botany in the American Veterinary College. 
Since I have been made responsible in the February issue 
of the Review for the statement that golden-rods are poisonous 
to horses, notwithstanding that I have never made the state¬ 
ment that they are so in themselves, it seems desirable that I 
here state what little I know of this obscure subject. 
Late in August, 1891, Dr. Jacob Helmer, of Scranton, Pa., 
called upon me to consult in reference to the poisoning of 
some valuable racing stock in a pasture near that city. He 
had carefully and repeatedly examined the pasture with a 
