EXTRA. 
EDITORIAL. 
On Sunday morning, September 14th, 1890, we left New 
York, accompanied by the contingent of veterinarian brethren 
who have hitherto constituted the nucleus of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association—gathered mostly from the East 
—with our faces turned westward. Our objective point was Chi¬ 
cago, and our purpose was to attend the twenty-seventh anniver¬ 
sary meeting of the Association, which had been appointed to be 
held in that city. Making something of a detour from the more 
direct route, for the purpose of a brief stay in each of our sister 
cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and augment¬ 
ing our force in the last named city by a number of new recruits, 
we sped onward until we reached Cincinnati. Here a longer halt 
was ordered, and deviating from our direct road, we made a visit 
to Lexington, Ky., where, in pursuance of arrangements made by 
Hr. Kidd, we were gratified by a visit to two of the best breeding 
establishments of that vicinity. Returning to Cincinnati, we re 
sumed our journey in our special car, and after a very gay , if not 
