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this year, chiefly for ticks, but in one county scab prevails to a 
large extent and Dr. Knowles will give personal and vigorous 
attention to the difficulty at once.— {Breeders' Gazette^ Mar. j.) 
Couldn’t Fool the Farmers. —In a long account of the 
meeting of the Farmers’ Institute, at Hillsboro, Ohio, on Feb. 8, 
the Hillsboro Gazette makes the following comments on a paper 
read by a veterinary surgeon on a very important subject: 
“ After music Dr. Gilbert gave a talk upon ‘ Milk Fever,’ which 
satisfied the doctor even if it did not the audience. The sub¬ 
stance of his paper was in harmony with his published article in 
the Leesburg Buckeye of some weeks ago, which the doctor 
copied from Fleming’s ‘ Veterinary Obstetrics,’ page 656, and 
failed to give credit for the same, and which he failed to have 
published in the American Veterinary Review for March, 
1896, page 823, simply from the reason that the matter was not 
new, and the doctor refused to reveal for the benefit of others 
the character of the remedy he claimed to have discovered. It 
is simply an insult to our intelligent and fair minded people to 
assume them so ignorant that he could take the careful produc¬ 
tion of another and palm it off as his own without discovery.” 
The Bones of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian. —It is proposed 
by John H. Wallace, the trotting horse authority, to dig up the 
bones of this famous progenitor of the American trotting horse, 
have them properly articulated, made into a perfect skeleton and 
placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, in New 
York, among Dr. Wortman’s collection of fossil horses. Ham¬ 
bletonian died in 1876, and was buried on the highest point of 
his owner’s farm in Chester, Orange County, New York, and it 
is thought that his bones may yet be perfect. There are many 
other instances of noted horses being preserved thus—Elec¬ 
tioneer and Palo Alto are on exhibition at the late Governor 
Stanford’s Palo Alto farm, in California; Geo. M. Patchen’s 
bones are in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington ; Hermit, 
the great English race-horse, was presented by his owner to the 
Royal Veterinary College, Eondon. It is the intention of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Natural History to place on exhibition 
the skeleton of a modern representative thoroughbred race¬ 
horse, a high-class trotter, a draft-horse and a common scrub, 
with a view to showing the comparative quality of the bones of 
all. 
The Spirit of Progress in Iowa. —A personal letter from 
State Veterinarian J. I. Gibson, of Iowa, has such a ring of the 
right kind of enthusiasm for progress in veterinary science that 
