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The municipal owned or controlled slaughter house has come 
to stay. It has been proven a success, when viewed from all sides 
interested. It has been demonstrated that by assembling all ani¬ 
mals to be slaughtered at a central point, or in the case of a large 
city, several convenient points, where adequate facilities are pro¬ 
vided that the slaughtering can be done and the necessary refrig¬ 
eration furnished with less expense to the butcher than were each 
butcher to undertake to furnish his own facilities. In addition to 
being a convenience and financial saving to the butchers, the pub¬ 
lic abattoir, from a sanitary point of view, is a success as much 
as it is a necessity, to say nothing of the enterprise being a safe 
municipal business proposition. 
Public sentiment must be aroused and the poeple made to un¬ 
derstand this important question, especially the officials of our 
local municipalities, and the many economic and hygienic advan¬ 
tages of such a system for handling local inspection pointed out, 
so that the more safe and up-to-date methods may be installed. 
This done, it will be but a surprisingly short time until many of 
our Pennsylvania towns will have a place on the roll of honor. 
Dr. W. G. Clark, Marinette, Wis., says: “The Review gets 
better with every number. Can’t afford to miss a number; have 
a complete bound file from 1891. With best wishes, etc.” 
Young and Up-to-Date After Forty Years in Practice 
Dr. D. D. Keller, the veteran practitioner of veterinary medi¬ 
cine, Salem, Ore., wrote when rnewing his subscription to the 
Review : “ Please continue my subscription to the American 
Veterinary Review for another year. Many new publications, 
and quite worthy ones too, coming out, but none of them nearly 
reaches the American Veterinary Review. How any veter 
inarian can hope to keep anywhere nearly abreast of the times 
and not read the Review I cannot figure out. I have followed 
my profession for nearly forty years and expect to continue it as 
long as I live; and as long as I am permitted to practice, I want 
to know all the new and best things and put them into practice; 
for although I am old in body, I may be young and up-to-date 
in mind.” 
