A VETERINARY POTPOURRI. 
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style of this paper. But Mrs. H. says that my horses are fast 
enough and whoever listens to me will be convinced that each 
horse’s pedigree traces directly back to Imported Messenger on 
one side, and Rysdyk’s Hamiltonian on the other). 
Just the same I have never failed to read a select amount of 
the latest and best veterinary literature, but no obsolete works 
or back number mag*azines for me, and it has always been my 
belief that if a veterinarian had to choose between buying a new 
coat or a new standard veterinary work, he should do without 
the coat. The coat will come. A veterinarian does not have to 
depend entirely upon appearances for results. As for myself I 
seldom blacken my shoes, I usually grease them, and sometimes 
I smoke a cob pipe. 
Still no one can read it all, unless he has nothing else to do. 
Collective veterinary learning is what we need, and how to cure 
sick animals is what we want to know. 
By the way. The other day I was testing a herd of cattle in 
which were some marked reactors. The owner asked if I had 
ever tested a herd that was clear of reactors. I had to say “ No.” 
How many could have said Yes ” Don’t all answer at once. 
To those answering in the affirmative I will set ’em up to some 
horse powders. 
I believe all papers to be read at our meetings should be 
censored by a special official or committee. Take, for instance, 
a long-winded technical paper or tuberculosis with endless thero- 
meter readings. Now a fact or truth can be told in a very few 
words,-but we are all given to wordiness. (Absolutely nothing 
personal intended.) 
We are in no danger of growing tired of this subject of 
tuberculosis—we are already tired of it—at meetings, especially 
when it becomes a big wind. 
If anything makes one sick of association meetings, it is the 
uncomfortable, even painful, toleration of long drawn-out (mind 
I say long drawn out) papers on thread-bare subjects. The 
presentation of these kind of papers is a custom, I know, but 
sometimes customs, like old clothes, should be changed—occas- 
