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Use injections of starch, always using such food as will be 
easily digested, and be sufficiently nourishing to maintain the 
strength of the patient. 
Now Mr. President and gentlemen, I thank you kindly for 
your patience and attention, and I sincerely hope that this essay 
may elicit some discussion. 
The subject I am aware is obnoxious to many but in the fu¬ 
ture will undoubtedly benefit the whole profession, for as the dog 
is bred so is the requirements of the veterinarian in demand. 
This simple essay although not so technical, pathological or 
flowery as some, is my own experience based upon facts. I hope 
this may hold up support or in any way benefit the poor but 
faithful companion of man, the dog. 
UNITED STATES MEAT INSPECTION. 
By Dr. E. Salmon, V.S., Chief Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir :—The communication of Dr. Schwarzkopf in the 
March number of the Review, demonstrates once more how 
difficult a matter it is for some gentlemen to comprehend either 
the actual condition of the German meat inspection service, or 
of that which has been established in the United States. 
I should not ask your indulgence to print another instalment 
of this discussion were it not that certain statements made by 
Dr. Schwarzkopf bring the matter to such an acute stage that 
further attention is demanded. He tells us that he “was very 
much annoyed when a member of the association assailed the 
United States Meat Inspection Service at our last meeting, for 
which there was no occasion whatever;” and then he proceeds 
to repeat and intensify the offense, in the light of all that has 
been said and written on the subject ! 
If none but our people saw the REVIEW, I might leave his 
absurd misstatements to the intelligence and knowledge of the 
