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ments for talented veterinarians to enter and remain in the service 
an urgent necessity and a measure of economy. The present 
disgraceful state of army veterinary matters savors largely of 
apathy and negligence of the best interests of, and detriment to, 
the various branches of the service. 
The formation of an army veterinary corps, with its commis- 
ioned officers, as in all European countries, would prove a great 
economy and benefit to the best interests of the service. It would 
reduce the present high mortality and yearly animal condemned 
list, arising from causes not inquired into. It would insure the 
purchase of sound and proper animals, prevent the present waste 
of drugs and other veterinary materials, and provide rational in¬ 
structions for veterinary nurses and horse shoers. At present, 
certain stables, posts, regiments, batteries and garrisons may have 
an unusually high death rate, or percentage of sick or diseased 
animals, and continue so, without the slightest attention or inquir¬ 
ies as to their causes, or measures being undertaken for their 
removal, prevention or recurrence. 
Army veterinary service is and always had been a vast series 
of wasteful and extravagant experiments in drugs, animals, horse¬ 
shoeing, etc., etc. The Army and .Navy Journal says: “It costs 
five dollars, ($5.00) per horse, per annum, for army veterinary 
service, against fifteen cents per horse, per annum, at the American 
Veterinary College, New York.” 
As well might combatant officers, and with equal chances of 
success, attempt the management of that admirable corps, the 
Medical and Hospital Department, as is now obtained, at their 
hands, in army veterinary affairs. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
FRACTURE OF RADIUS —AMPUTATION. 
By H. B. Adair, V.S., of Kansas City, Mo. 
Jan. 24. I was consulted in regard to a mare that had frac¬ 
tured her leg about Jan. 20. The mare was fifteen years old, 
and blind in both eyes, and was safe in foal to Governor Wilkes. 
She’was at Waterloo, Mo. (about thirty miles from Kansas City); 
