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In some cities there seems to be a sufficient number. But all are 
hard working and skillful veterinarians who are daily bringing 
the profession to a higher and higher professional and social stan¬ 
dard. 
Pardon this long letter. I felt that you should know that 
Missouri is responding to the demand of the .Review, “ raise the 
profession to where it properly belongs.” 
Pardon me also for personal allusions. I have been so closely 
connected with all that I explain herein that I could not help 
them. If you find anything in this worthy of publication you 
may extract them for the Veterinarian Review. Yours truly, 
P. Paquin. 
P. S. A chair of comparative medicine (pathology of animals 
compared to man, etc.) has been established at the University 
Medical School as a result of discussions above stated. 
GUESSING AN OLD MARE’S AGE. 
Editor American Veterinary Review: 
I enclose herewith a slip of paper for publication in the Review, 
interesting from the fact that it shows how difficult it is for per¬ 
sons to tell the exact age of a horse after having passed into its 
teens or through them. The subject was a bay mare that I have 
known from colthood and know her to be at least 29 years of age, 
she having been broken about the beginning of the war, 1861. 
She was then owned by the father of the present owner, near 
Hightstown, N. J. She is now in the son’s possession at Asbury 
Park, N. J., and I had her brought to the meeting of the New 
Jersey Veterinary Medical Association for the purpose of having 
the veterinarians look at her mouth and tell her age. Twelve 
of those present looked at her month and wrote the age on a slip 
of paper, so that no one knew what any other marked until all 
who wished had given an opinion, when the slips were opened by 
myself, and they read as follows: 
16—Non-graduate. 
16—Graduate of the New Jersey School, of Dr. Smith, of Trenton. 
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