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editor of the Review has been employing it in his practice for 
some time with most satisfactory results. Their annonncement 
fully explains its therapeutical advantages and indications, and 
we trust it will prove as efficacious in the hands of the general 
practitioner as it has shown itself to be in ours. 
A Banquet of Horse Meat. —The Kansas City Simday 
Journal says that at the annual banquet of the Kansas City 
Veterinary College on March 5 horse meat was served to the 
faculty and students and some invited guests and, although the 
spread was elaborate, not a morsel of meat other than horse flesh 
was served, beginning with soup and ending with roast. It is 
said that the guests pronounced it luscious. Even onr sedate 
Secretary of the U. S. V. M. A. smacked his lips and said he en¬ 
joyed it. The following was the menu : “ Soup : Consomme a 
la Equine. Broncho Bouillon. Meats : Roast Sirloin of Stallion 
with Brown Gravy. Fried Filly a la Soubise. Old Mare Boiled, 
with Horseradish. Boiled Gelding a la Fran^aise. Vegetables. 
PavStry : (Thoroughbred) Pudding. Nuts : Horse chestnuts. 
Drinks : Ice Water. Hard Water. Soft Water. Well Water. Hy¬ 
drant Water. Water. Coffee. Mares’ Milk.” It was voted to 
have a similar banquet annually. 
Veterinary Hypodermic Tabeets. —An important an¬ 
nouncement in connection with this subject is made in the ad¬ 
vertising department of this month’s Review, wherein the 
well-known house of the Buntin Drug Company, of Terre Haute, 
Ind., notifies the profession of material reductions in the prices of 
their standard and well-known veterinary hypodermic tablets. 
These concentrated preparations have gradually worked their 
way into professional popularity, and many practitioners employ 
them exclusively for conditions where they are indicated. Their 
convenience, uniformity of strength, and general reliability war¬ 
rant their more extended employment, since the popular con¬ 
ception of therapeutics is to eliminate the non-essentials and to 
administer the active principles. The firm mentioned deserve 
well of the profession for their pioneer work in this direction, 
which was for a long time carried on in the belief that the 
merits of the preparations would eventually force a business in 
that line. We are pleased to learn from the house that their 
efforts are gradually meeting with the appreciation they de¬ 
serve, and that the demand is upon an increasing scale. Some 
of the most commonly used of the alkaloids have been the sub¬ 
jects of the most sweeping reductions, and we are sure that the 
