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W. H. HARBAUGH. 
veterinary education. We have read them defending their 
standing in our journals. But what must be thought of their 
beautiful theories when we see what is taking place in the schools 
where they are teachers. In the report of the commencement 
exercises of one of the Washington schools appeared the name 
of a gentleman who received his degree from that school. 
This college is a two-year institution, its arrangement im- 
' plies at least one year of studies within its walls. How is it then 
that the person above alluded to, graduated from it after an 
attendance of a few weeks only, having entered the school about 
Christmas vacation, and then graduating the following 
March. 
Is this a two-year school curriculum ? Is this the meaning 
of a higher education? Will this Washington school explain? 
No doubt that is a matter of investigation for all, and especially 
for the National Association. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
REMARKS ON SOUTHERN GATTLE FEVER. 
By W. H. Harbaugh, V. S. 
(Read before the Virginia State Veterinary Medical Association, Charlottesville, Va., 
January 3, 1895.) 
( Continued from page igj.) 
I have perfect faith in the Bureaus discovery of the protozoal 
micro-organisms in the red blood corpuscles, because it thor¬ 
oughly explains every phenomenon of the disease, as well as 
the post mortem lesions. But from whence comes the micro¬ 
organism ? From the South certainly, but how does it gain 
access to the blood of cattle ? Does the tick get it from the 
infected cattle, or do the cattle get it from the tick ? That the 
