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CORRESPONDENCE. 
How can prescriptions be written accurately unless the- 
writer has a knowledge, even rudimentary, of Latin ? And 
yet admission to colleges may be gained without the appli 
cant knowing that such a language exists. 
There is an old saying “ Knowledge is power.” Know¬ 
ledge of what? Of veterinary science? Oh, no; such 
knowledge may bring money, and then the money bring 
power, but in these enlightened times such knowledge alone 
is not power. 
Men of education turn toward the veterinary profession 
as a means of subsistence, and there are many more who, if 
they felt that it was a profession not open to the ignorant, 
would enlist in its ranks. Not being a member of the 
U.S.V.M.A. myself, I trust that these remarks will not be 
considered as out of place by its members, but I hear so 
much about veterinary etiquette now-a-days that I should like 
to hear something about education for awhile, for without 
the latter it is a farce to speak of the former. 
Richmond, Va. F. Harvey, D.V.S. 
AN INQUIRY. 
Mr. Editor : I would like to be enlightened on one point, 
if 1 may trespass upon your journal to that extent. Are em¬ 
ployees of the Bureau of Animal Industry allowed to engage 
in private practice ? If so, I think it but just that the Depart- 
partment of Agriculture grant a subsidy to every veterinarian 
not connected with the Bureau, in order that they may be 
placed upon an equal footing with its employes, since the pri¬ 
vate veterinarian is equally as capable, and oftentimes more 
so, for public practice than the Bureau veterinarian. Although 
the latter may know more about “ tagging steers ” yet he 
greatly handicaps his brother in the race for dollars. I have 
always thought that “no man could serve two masters,” but 
this idiom appears to be untrue, to the detriment and positive 
injury of some of us practitioners. An answer to this query 
is desired. Non Nobis Solum. 
VETERINARIAN WANTED. 
Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. 15th, 1891. 
Dear Sir : Will you please send us the name and address 
of some good veterinarian wishing to locate in a good town 
in the West. We would prefer one that has practiced to 
some extent. If you will answer this you will confer a great 
favor. Yours, Michael & Stephens. 
