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on the part of those who might have furnished intellectual 
food to the others, or from, in many cases, the heedless inter¬ 
ference, and delay of the proceedings by subjects of business 
(?) and trivial matters which might have been left to one side. 
For the future we should remedy these errors. We should 
confine our “ business ” to the limits of what is absolutely 
necessary. We should take more accurate notes of cases and 
prepare papers and present them here, ready to defend their 
value. Veterinary literature has become an established fact 
in this country, and we should all aid in its improvement. 
The improvement of the education of our successors is a 
serious duty we have to perform. This lies not only with 
those connected with veterinary schools, but also with the 
whole profession, for it is the latter who have the power to 
build up or tear down an institution, by furnishing to it or 
withholding from it, students. If they demand but little in¬ 
struction, but a pittance will be given. If they will only study 
where every facility is given, the schools will vie with each 
other in increasing the facilities for a complete education. 
The improvement of the position of our colleagues in the 
army offers a subject of national importance in which we 
must all aid. When we can see the veterinarian of the army 
an authority on the subject of animal industry, a factor of the 
government, a social peer of the best educated officers of the 
country, our profession throughout the land will have reached 
its proper recognition. We have a great deal to accomplish, 
but it can be done if we work together and are industrious. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
‘ ‘ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner , but his skill dies with him. By 
recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and as¬ 
sists by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science. ”— Vet¬ 
erinary Record. 
A VAGINAL TUMOR FRON A TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY. 
By J. Smith, V.S., Gettysburg, Ohio. 
August 31st, I was telephoned to attend a two-year-old 
filly on the farm of John Clark, south of Bradford Junction 
