BREEDING PROBLEMS. 
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of a third party in the realm of horse-breeding; the farmer- 
breeder and the veterinarian can conscientiously do all the work 
inherent to it by nature and demanded by our present day civil¬ 
ization. 
{To be continued.) 
ARMY VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
The fate of the Army Veterinary Bill before Congress will 
be decided in the latter part of July or early in August. At this 
writing the bill has not been passed by the House of Representa¬ 
tives, but it is hoped by Chairman Hoskins that it will come to 
a vote on July 15 or 22. It will need an extraordinary strong 
effort and endurance to get the bill considered in the Senate be¬ 
fore adjournment, but it is Dr. Hoskins’ firm intention to let no 
stone unturned to push the bill through during this session of 
Congress, which is the ardent wish of the army veterinarians. We 
trust and hope that he and his associates will succeed in their 
labors in behalf of an improved army veterinary service. 
O. S. 
OBITUARY. 
JOHN BENNETT, V. M. D. 
Dr. John Bennett, Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania, died 
July 2 last in his fifty-first year. Dr. Bennett was born in Johns- 
ville, Bucks County, Pa., in 1862, and spent the early part of his 
life at that place, receiving his earlier education in a private 
school in Hatboro of the same county. He studied medicine at 
Bellevue Medical College, New York City, and veterinary medi¬ 
cine at the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania, 
graduating with the first class from that school. Born of Quaker 
parentage, Dr. Bennett was himself a strict Quaker, and was 
held in high esteem by his townsmen in Ambler and Tyrone, 
where he practiced, for his manly and gentlemanly principles. He 
was a Free Mason. The whole veterinary profession, not only 
of Pennsylvania, but of America, extends its sympathy to the 
sorrowing widow that survives him. 
