ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
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Now, you have granted such recognition to other branches of the 
service that are no more entitled. It is the policy of our country 
to commission physicians, dentists and chaplains, and I cannot be¬ 
lieve that you will longer discriminate against a profession -that 
has lifted itself against so many obstacles as ours. 
D. A. H. 
Veterinarians of New York City learn with regret and 
surprise of the death of one of New York’s most prominent 
veterinary practitioners (retired), Dr. W. D. Critcherson (see 
obituary notice on page 243). Had the news of his death 
reached them earlier, and the information that he was to be 
buried in Woodlawn, great numbers of them would have at¬ 
tended the services and paid their last respects to their departed 
brother. 
Worthy of Emulation. —“ Tuberculosis has been elimi¬ 
nated from every herd of pure bred cattle in the state, some¬ 
thing that cannot be said of any other state in the Union,” was 
the statement made by Dr. S. H. Ward, secretary of the Min¬ 
nesota State Sanitary Board, which was in annual session at 
the old Capitol. 
Dr. Ward reported that the state is remarkably free from 
animal diseases. Only fifteen horses have been killed because 
of glanders in the quarter January 1 to March 31 last. No 
case of hog cholera has been reported to the Board for some 
time.— {New York Herald.) 
An act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine, 
surgery and dentistry in the state of Kentucky, and to 
establish a state board of examiners, was introduced in the leg¬ 
islature at its last session, and, although defeated, it has not 
discouraged the plucky and optimistic veterinarians of the blue 
grass country, as they feel that they have accomplished some¬ 
thing in getting it further than on any of the three previous 
occasions when the same bill was introduced and each time 
killed in the committee. It will be introduced again in the next 
legislature. 
