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mand, or fancy. By breeding from carefully selected parents, 
the breeder can rapidly increase his flocks and herds, by choosing 
those of great fecundity from which to breed—ewes from fami¬ 
lies that year twins or triplets, cows that uniformly breed, sows 
that farrow large numbers of pigs—and it is just as essential 
that the males, also, should be selected from like prolific fami¬ 
lies and dams far back through generations of excellence and fe¬ 
cundity.” 
To the layman, the marvelous possibilities of benign breed¬ 
ing, and the vast benefits conferred upon man and animals by 
the science of hygiene are almost inconceivably grand, hu¬ 
mane and noble. With such a conception, the boards of health 
should not only, be able to banish many of the infectious dis¬ 
eases of man and animals in their mutual relations to each 
other, but, also, to lengthen out the average periods of life of 
both man and animals, and thus increase the universal health 
and the goodly capabilities of human and animal productive¬ 
ness. Wise laws are vital fortifications to protect longevity, 
love of life and happiness. 
(To be continuedT) 
BARIUM CHLORIDE: ITS USE IN THE TREATMENT 
OF COLIC AND ACUTE INDIGESTION. 
By John E. Brown, V. S., Oskaloosa, Ia. 
[A Paper read before the Iowa State Veterinary Medical Association, Jan. 27, 1897. 
Recently barium chloride has gained something of a reputation 
as a therapeutic agent in colic and acute indigestion. Several 
short articles have appeared in our veterinary journals on the sub¬ 
ject, and, while some practitioners have reported highly satisfac¬ 
tory results from its use, for others its effects were uncertain, 
unsatisfactory and hazardous. It is only by a preponderance of 
evidence, for or against, that we will be able to decide as to its 
true value, and hence I add my testimony. 
It is a drug very little used medicinally, though I find that 
in a few instances it has been recommended in scrofulous and 
