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CORRESPONDENCE. 
The McKillip College, like every other veterinary and medi¬ 
cal college, will turn out incompetent practitioners, and some 
of them may even become “bums,” but it will be too bad if the 
dean or the McKillip College should be traduced for gradu¬ 
ating such men. A man may be apt to learn, and may pass his 
examinations, while at the same time he may never be a good 
reliable practitioner. 
While all progressive veterinarians desire a longer course of 
study by the various veterinary colleges in the United States 
and Canada. We also believe that there should be some special 
qualification for teachers in the different schools. It is not so 
much the two-year-term as the grade of teaching. You may 
matriculate a master of arts, but if he sits in a veterinary college 
for six years, being taught by incompetents, he will not gradu¬ 
ate with as much knowledge of the art as he would do in a two- 
year-school, conducted by competent teachers. The attention 
of the profession should be directed to the grade of teacheis, as 
well as to the length of course. How can the system of estab¬ 
lishing colleges by a few individuals irrespective of their own 
qualifications be kept in check (?) Only by state or national 
legislation. 
Wishing the dean of the new anti-“diploma mill” success in 
his new venture. And with best wishes for the success of higher 
education in veterinary colleges. 
I am, yours truly, 
D. A. Carmack. 
Brookings, S. D. 
NOTES ON THE METHOD OF SPAYING BITCHES. 
Editor American Veterinary Review:— 
DEAR Sir:—I n a paper on the above subject, published in 
your journal last April, but which has only just fallen under my 
eye, the following appears: “Before proceeding, I must stop a 
