STERILITY OF MARES. 
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such purposes. The Bureau of Animal Industry has em¬ 
ployed more veterinarians, and has done more for the veteri¬ 
nary profession than any other institution or department of 
the government, and yet this man, representing for the time 
the profession, seized his opportunity to do what he could to 
cripple this Bureau. And when we examine his case, as we 
have just done in the light of recorded evidence, we find his 
argument can be characterized by the single word—misrepre¬ 
sentation. Condemning personalities, political methods and 
lack of honesty in others, he, in the same paper, makes him¬ 
self liable to all of these charges. 
In concluding, the writer calls upon the members of the 
United States Veterinary Medical Association to give this 
matter special consideration, to compare the quotations which 
he has made with the original documents, and to decide 
whether their body is to be made the medium for circulating 
such statements as are contained in this committee’s report, 
or whether it will insist on carrying out the objects for which 
it was established, viz.: The promotion of harmony and good 
fellowship, the advancement of the profession, and the en¬ 
couragement of honest and conscientious scientific research. 
STERILITY OF MARES. 
By M. E. Knowles, V.S., Terre Haute, Indiana. 
Sterility of the mare and cow has attracted the attention 
of breeders in particular, and veterinarians in a mild sort of 
way, for years. 
There have been many instruments invented and proposed 
for the cure of sterility, without a single suggestion as to the 
probable cause, other than ridged cervix — u contracted os.” 
I will not offer suggestions as to the merits of the different 
impregnators and nostrums offered to the breeder for the 
positive cure of sterility, but leave this for your individual 
opinion. 
To my knowledge, no veterinarian has described any of 
the most frequent causes of temporary sterility, and it is with 
much hesitation that I now attempt it, 
