CORRESPONDENCE. 
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what’s going to be done about it ? I would like to hear your 
views on this subject, through the next issue. There are other 
parties in this section who have registered without any claims 
whatever under the law. I shall give you the name of one, T. 
D. Roberts, who swears he has been practicing veterinary medi¬ 
cine and surgery as a profession for the last twelve years. Now,, 
the fact is, this would-be veterinarian is a domestic—a knight of 
the stable-fork and broom, wearing livery and a cockade in his 
hat, and in the employ of the late A. W. Sargent and his relict,, 
then and now a Massachusetts family spending every winter in 
Boston and the summers at Fishkill-on-Hudson. This worthy I 
have made strong efforts to bring before a Dutchess County grand 
jury for indictment, and for that purpose appeared before the 
District Attorney, John Hackett, in consort with N. F. Thomp¬ 
son, D.Y.S., but met with stern opposition from a practitioner 
of that city, who, by tfie way, had been swearing for years by 
an authority of one of the veterinary societies which now ap¬ 
pears only to bear date Sept. 15th, 1886. If the members of the 
various veterinary societies remain as lethargic and tardy as they 
have been of late years, I propose to give a number of them a 
general fanning through the medium of the leading newspapers 
of this State—the only medium, I believe, that will arouse them 
to proper action, which I will abstain from if the profession 
make a move in the right direction ; but with the experience I 
have had in various veterinary societies and associations, I cannot 
but echo the sentiments of C. H. Peabody’s appeal in your last 
issue. Yours truly, 
W. D. Middleton, Y.S. 
ANIMAL INSURANCE. 
Editor of American Veterinary Review : 
It would evidently look as if the services of veterinarians are- 
getting down to a pretty low ebb, when an insurance company 
can manage to throw them in, as a tea store does crockery. The 
value of the service, of course, is not guaranteed, and well it 
might not be, if the examination for “ unsound ” and “ diseased ” 
horses are to be a guide. A client of mine lately had four horses 
insured at a cost that is promised not to exceed thirty-five dollars 
