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J. C. BURNESON. 
I read with much interest in the Veterinarian an article by 
Prof. Duncan McEachran, of McGill University, Canada, in 
which he relates the polluted condition of affairs once in vogue, 
regarding tuberculous cattle in the live stock industry between 
Europe, Canada and the United States. Is it to be wondered 
at that the tuberculin test is condemned ? Does this not give 
the dealers in cattle ample opportunity for the denunciations 
which they have uttered ? Can we expect to make any progress 
with such unscrupulous pretenders within our midst? This 
“ scull-duggery ” must be acknowledged and is to be deplored. 
The tuberculin test rightly carried out in every particular is 
beyond just condemnation. 
The test cannot receive the credit which its merit justify by 
any of the above-mentioned modus operandi , neither. by the 
taking of two, three or four temperatures during the entire test. 
The right way is the only way, and by the right way I mean 
not less than five or six temperatures before injection and seven 
or eight temperatures, or more if necessity demands, after in¬ 
jection, and the confining of all animals under proper conditions 
and close observation of all which might act as a disturbing 
element during the entire test. 
A proper test can be relied upon to give proper results. 
The herd-owner in some instances has some base upon which 
to place his shaky opinion of the tuberculin test, because he has 
been imposed upon ; while on the other hand, I acknowledge 
my belief that many attacks are made upon it by unscrupulous 
persons having no other object in view but malicious destruction 
of the conscientious work of others and the furtherance of their 
own selfish motives. 
Ontario Veterinary Coeeege Graduates. —At the 
recent Christmas examinations the following were granted di¬ 
plomas : Wilson A. Bisbee, Cleveland, Ohio; Alexander Doherty, 
Ellesmere, Ont.; J. Leonard Faragher, Lorain, Ohio; Albert T. 
Ford, Neustadt, Ont.; A. P. Lubach, Boonton, N. J.; John L. 
McCoy, Sussex, N. J.; William D. McMullen, Chilton, Wis¬ 
consin ; Arthur E. Melhuish, Toronto ; T. C. Neff, Jun., Long 
Glade,Va.; R. J. Norton, Owen Sound; J. A. Royce, Lincoln, Neb. 
