UNITED STATES MEAT INSPECTION. 
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I do not bring out these facts simply because it affords me 
an exquisite pleasure to discredit the German inspection, as Dr. 
Schwarzkopf tried to make me assert, by garbling the language 
of my previous letter, but because it is a real pleasure to demon¬ 
strate to people who have a propensity for throwing stones that 
their own edifice is constructed largely of glass. For the mod¬ 
est, untiring, devoted, generous German scientists, of whom 
there are so many, I have the greatest respect and admiration ; 
but for that other class of critical, bumptious, arrogant, narrow¬ 
minded individuals who have made themselves offensive by their 
effusive and unscrupulous efforts to convince the world that our 
inspection is a farce, and our science a delusion, I have nothing 
of a complimentary character to say. 
My views on veterinary education were given in a former 
letter, and there is no need for restating them in this. I am as 
anxious for higher education as any one, and I think I know as 
well as any member of our profession, both of what the higher 
education consists, and what are the most certain and practical 
methods of reaching it. When the gentlemen who are so fond 
of exploiting their views on this subject, successfully enforce 
proper entrance examinations, offer a curriculum and supply a 
faculty worthy of the ideal position which they assume, there 
will be no disposition to withhold full credit ; but for the pres¬ 
ent, while we may fairly be permitted to judge the accuracy of 
the teaching by the accuracy, or inaccuracy, of the deliberate 
and written statements of the professors, each one of us may 
have without reproach his own opinions as to the value of the 
extended course which they advocate. 
If Dr. Schwarzkopf had been consistent, he would have gone 
back, after writing his last paragraph, in which he expresses his 
“ inner feeling that a great wrong, a wicked offense is being 
perpetrated against our profession by some men of little educa¬ 
tion and less character in keeping up low grade schools,” and 
avoided committing an offense of the same character by expun¬ 
ging the misstatements in the first part of his letter concerning 
the United States Meat Inspection. The veterinary profession 
