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SOCIETY MEETINGS 
hay—could not call them stacks as no care had been taken with it. 
The timothy when harvested had a short thick growth of green 
grass which was cut with the hay and was covered with a mold 
at threshing time. 1 hese stacks were burned and no cattle 
died afterwards. 
Dr. Torrence: “Do not almost all cattle having impaction of 
rumen, or other stomach troubles, suffer with different degrees 
of paralysis due to reabsorption of grasses ? ” 
Dr. J. D. Fair had seen two outbreaks of a disease showing 
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similar symptoms, which were both due to feeding, bad ensilage, 
thrown about in feed troughs. 
Some present thought the disease diphtheria, and tried to 
show the analogy. 
The new veterinary bill, as it passed the Ohio Legislature, 
was now read and discussed, not one present being satisfied with 
its exactness, especially when all the good clauses of the origi¬ 
nal draft of the bill had been left out of it when it became a law; 
and that it was probably very little, if any ; better than no law 
at all. A decision from the Attorney-General was read, wherein 
he stated that according to his rendition of the law the examin¬ 
ers would call any graduate before them for examination, no 
matter how many years he may have been in practice. 
This decision was thought to be very unfair, as none could see 
where, and in what section, the law conferred any such powers 
upon the board of examiners ; so much so that the association 
decided to support any member in a legal test, if the board of 
examiners should undertake to assume such a power. 
Dr. T. R. Cotton now read a paper entitled “Veterinary 
Dentistry.” 
This paper was well prepared, both from a scientific and 
practical standpoint, showing that the writer had exercised con¬ 
siderable care and study of the subject written on. 
Dr. Torrence: “When there is a long molar tooth below, 
necessitating its being cut off', the opposite molar should be 
extracted.” 
V. 
Dr. Cotton. No, do not do so unless you have to, because, 
