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sioner to investigate the demands of the foreign buyers in 
Chieago, to note carefully the kind of horses purchased, to learn 
the intended uses of these horses in foreign countries, and to in¬ 
quire into their breeding. The results of this investigation 
will be published in a special report. 
We are glad the stone has been set rolling and are confident 
that the usefulness of a veterinary commissioner in such ques¬ 
tions will be established once and for all. Dr. Brnette is a 
bright young veterinarian, an inspector for the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry and the veterinary editor of the Horseinan. We 
wish him success in his investigation and shall await his report 
with interest. 
A lylBRARY FOR THE NEW YoRK STATE VETERINARY 
COEEEGE. —We learn through the public press that when ex- 
Governor Roswell P. Flower was driving through the grounds 
of Cornell University his horse balked in front of the library of 
the veterinary department and refused to proceed or be com¬ 
forted. The distinguished occupant of the vehicle alighted to 
seek the cause of his erratic behavior. Failing in the search, 
he entered the building in front of which his progression had 
been so ruthlessly cut short, and meeting there the Director of 
the Veterinary College, who was contemplating the fifteen 
volumes contained in the library, appealed to him, as an expert 
in equine psychology, for an explanation of the singular circum¬ 
stance. With that acute eye for business which is character¬ 
istic of his nationality, the Director suggested that his steed had 
become appalled at the empty shelves and had refused to further 
serve his wealthy and generous master unless he contributed 
something very handsome to the nucleus of the veterinary 
library, and, in reply to the ex-Governor’s interrogation, re¬ 
marked that $5000 would about fill the bill. Without further 
ado, the guest drew from his inside pocket his familiar check¬ 
book, filled it out in accordance with the suggestion, and thus 
has laid the foundation of the greatest library for veterinarians 
in the world. 
