CATTLE TRANSPORTATION. 
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CATTLE TRANSPORTATION, 
By Dr. Williamson Bryden, Y.S., Boston, Mass. 
In looking over “ The Proceedings of United States Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association,” a copy of which I have just re¬ 
ceived, I am rather sorry to have to admit to disappointment. 
Owing to my article being in a rather unfinished condition 
at the close of our meeting at Washington, D. C., in 1891, 
several errors occurred in it as reported in the American 
VETERINARY Review and in the Journal of Comparative Medi¬ 
cine , etc. The discussion following it, too, as reported, I found 
to be entirely unintelligible. This I took pains to correct the 
following month, so far as it referred to what I had said , but 
I refrained from criticising the remarks attributed to Drs. 
Michener, Miller and Faville, of the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, to which they had been but recently appointed, until 
they had at least time to correct the remarks attributed to 
them, should they desire to do so, but which they evidently 
did not think necessary. 
It may be stated that owing to the large size of the hall in 
which we met, and the small number of members present* 
its acoustic properties were so poor that it was impossible 
either to hear one another or to report correctly what was 
said, especially in the discussions. I regret further to say 
that a similar mistake was made in Boston, at the last meet¬ 
ing, where a hall capable of seating over five hundred was 
secured, to seat what experience had proved would not ex¬ 
ceed one hundred persons. 
Referring to my article on the Transportation of Cattle, 
permit me to say that I am disappointed at its not being pub¬ 
lished as I corrected it, and as I returned it to the Secretary. 
Referring to the discussion, I have to say that the remarks 
of my opponents show such a lamentable ignorance of the 
subject under discussion that one is led to infer that they 
either did not know, or intentionally tried a bluff. 
Dr. Michener had always led me to believe that he was a 
particular friend of mine , so I innocently asked him to delay 
