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in agricultural colleges, farmers’ institutes and the agricultural 
press. 
“ That this association places itself on record as discounte¬ 
nancing the action of any State which shall employ or empower 
anyone to apply the tuberculin test, officially, who is not a thor¬ 
oughly competent and qualified veterinarian. 
“ And that we deplore most sincerely the attitude of the State 
of Illinois regarding the tuberculin test, and that a copy of this 
resolution be forwarded to every member of the State Legislature 
and to the Governor and to any others interested.” 
All of these form a good record for this fifteenth meeting of 
the U. S. Livestock Association. 
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Special Notice.— I have just received the following infor¬ 
mation relating to the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the foundation of the first veterinary school of the world and to 
the International Congress of Comparative Pathology, to' both of 
which American veterinarians have been invited in previous 
chronicle: 
The festivals of the first will be on the ist and 2d of June, 
1912. 
The congress will hold its meeting between the 17th and 23d 
of October of this year. 
A. L. 
THE ARMY VETERINARY BILL. 
LET YOUR ENMITY TO THIS OPPOSITION RING TRUE AS THE SOUND 
OF THE HAMMER ON THE ANVIL. 
We who are all members of the veterinary profession of the 
United States may be graduates of very different colleges, and 
our views on veterinary methods may be as different as a black, 
wintry night is from a day in May, but we are all of one mind 
and of one opinion in this—in the pride we take in our profes¬ 
sion. If there is any one sentence to which we give utterance, in 
