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that I had made at the neighboring farm three miles away, 
called me in and suggested, “ was not this similar to the cases 
that I had three miles away.” I was only sorry in that case that 
we led the animal the distance we did. In doing so, in taking 
her away, we did so for sanitary precaution, and I think the ex¬ 
ercise of going that three miles hastened her death ; otherwise, 
we would have had some very valuable information and micro¬ 
scopical reports, but they corresponded with the pathology laid 
down on that subject. At this second farm, I have not heard 
of any subsequent deaths. 
Doctor Knowles :—My attention was first called to this out¬ 
break that I have mentioned, by seeing Mr. S’s. wagons stop¬ 
ping at so many places where diphtheria was prevalent, and it 
will be remembered that that was one of the most virulent out¬ 
breaks of diphtheria, and at almost every house that those 
wagons stopped at where they had children there was diph¬ 
theria, and nearly all of them had deaths. 
The President :—The time has elapsed in which we can dis¬ 
cuss this paper, and we will have to close, and I will name a 
committee to further investigate the case and report back to the 
convention in 1897. 
On motion, the discussion was closed, and the President 
named as such committee Doctors Stalker, Gill and Lyman. 
[Written specially for the American Veterinary Review.] 
FOOD—ITS USE AND ABUSE. 
By A. S. Heath, M.D., V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Food and protection are the primary demands of animal life. 
But as the former is the present topic of discussion it will re¬ 
ceive sole attention here. 
From 50 to 64 per cent, of the family income of working 
people is spent for food. And as economy is the source of wealth 
it behooves so large a purchaser of food to use reasonable econ¬ 
omy. And in order to render some service, we indicate some 
economic items worthy of consideration. 
The average expenditure for food of the working people of 
Germany is 53% per cent, of their wages ; of the English 51 per 
cent. ; and of Americans 58^ per cent. The balances left must 
