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providing horses with light and well-ventilated, and, at the same time, 
warm stables ; for stables in which too many horses were confined, if they 
did not actually produce disease, affected the usefulness and beauty, as 
well as the comfort of the animal. He remarked that no positive rule 
could be laid down as to the quantity of food a horse should receive, but 
the quality should be the very best; no forage either musty or dusty 
ought ever to be given, as it would be liable to produce disease either of 
the respiratory or digestive organs; water should always be given before 
feeding ; if given after, it might set up colic or enteritis ; a good clean 
bed, good and careful grooming, were necessary not only for look, but 
also for the health of animals. If attention to these rules was necessary 
in health, it was much more so in disease, and it was the veterinary 
surgeon’s duty to be thoroughly acquainted with hygiene, and to under¬ 
stand therapeutics. 
Mr. Wm. McEachran read a communication received from Dr. C. C. 
Lyford, Racine, which was very interesting. It was a case of epithe¬ 
lioma in the nasal cavity of a horse. At the next meeting Mr. P. 
Cummings will read a paper on “Auscultation” and Mr. Wm. Jakeman 
will describe a case. 
After a vote of thanks to essayists and Dr. Lyford, the meeting 
adjourned. 
ONTARIO VETERINARY MEDICAL AS SO- 
CIATION. 
This Association was established in Toronto in September, 1874, 
and has been steadily increasing in the number of its members and the 
interesting character of its meetings. The Province of Ontario, owing 
to the success of its veterinary college, through the energy and perse¬ 
verance of its principal, Professor Smith, is now pretty well supplied 
with qualified veterinary surgeons; in fact, the old class of practitioners 
is fast dying out. At the last session of the Provincial Legislature an 
Act to incorporate the Association was passed, several clauses in which 
cannot but be beneficial to practitioners, the clause requiring regis¬ 
tration especially so.—Any person falsely representing himself to be 
registered being liable to a heavy fine. There was an Act, before in 
existence, which is still in force, making it a finable offence for any 
person to usurp the title of veterinary surgeon, unless he be a graduate 
of some recognised college. 
The annual meeting was held in the Veterinary College, Toronto, as 
usual, on December 19th, 1879. 
Professor Smith , the President, opened the meeting by a short address, 
congratulating the members on the continued interest they took in the 
meetings of the Association. 
The minutes of the previous meeting in April were read and con¬ 
firmed. 
Secretary and Treasurer’s reports were read and adopted, showing a 
continuous increase in membership, also that the finances, notwith¬ 
standing the outlay incurred lately in procuring the Act of Incorpo¬ 
ration, was in a favorable state, there being still funds in hand. 
Communications were then read, amongst which were letters from the 
departments of agriculture of the United States and Canada, in reply to 
communications respecting the spread of contagious diseases of cattle. 
A paper on castration was read, with the view of eliciting the opinions 
