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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
KEYSTONE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The February meeting of the Keystone Veterinary Medical 
Association was held on the 9th with the following members 
of the profession present: Drs. R. S. Hnidekoper, H. D. Gill, 
H. D. Martein, W. W. Martin, J. D. Honldsworth, S. J. J. Har- 
ger, Otto G. Noack, H. P. Eves, J. R. Hart, W. Horace Hoskins, 
Charles Eintz, James T. McAiinlty, T. B. Rayner, and W. E. 
Rhoads. 
Rev. J. D. Diederick, of Flowertown, Pa., gave a very inter¬ 
esting talk on The Silo, Ensilage, Ensilage-fed Cattle, their 
Condition, and Results.” His talk showed him to be thoroughly 
conversant with his subject, he having made a practical study 
of this question for several years in its most minute detail, thus 
making the talk doubly pleasant and interesting to the practical 
veterianarian who is interested in cattle practice or has given 
the food question a study. He thought the white Southern 
corn the best variety, as the stalk is sweet and snccnlent as well 
as the ear. The better plan of planting is three or four feet 
apart and three or four grains to the running foot, this, if cut 
when the ears are in good condition for boiling, then shredded 
(as this is much better than the old method, which chopped the 
stalks and ears; the shredding not only puts the fodder itself in 
better condition, but has the corn more evenly distributed), and 
at this time properly housed makes, if opened rightly (that is, 
by removing all the decaying top at first) a fine June food for 
the balance ration of winter, and it should be used only as a 
balance ration, for as a food alone it soon causes the cattle to 
break down ; but if used properly, it is par excellence^ taking 
the place of roots, etc., and is a better'appetizer, keeping the 
fiow of the milk regular. At the conclusion of his* much- 
appreciated talk Mr. Diederick was stormed with questions. 
These he readily answered, amply earning the hearty vote of 
thanks later extended to him by the Association. 
The Association now adjourned its meeting and went in a 
body to the banquet-room in the Odd Fellows’ Temple, where a 
luncheon was awaiting them, and if our figure-heads at Wash¬ 
ington took half the interest in doing their duty toward Cuba 
that these veterinarians did in doing justice to the duty before 
them, Cuba Eibre would be established within twenty-four hours. 
After the invigorating influence of the Blue Points had begun 
to be felt, mixed, perhaps, with some of tlie food-product that 
