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kopf, C. E. Clayton, M. Kenney, J. F. DeVine, J. William Fink, 
E. F. Sandford, Charles S. Atchison, Janies W. Walker, B. 
Oiinther, August D. Moeller, Geo. P. Biggs (M. D.), and A. W. 
Clement (of Baltimore, Md.). Many of these are metropolitan 
veterinarians, and would make excellent additions to the mem¬ 
bership rolls. Every qualified veterinarian in this district 
should enroll himself, and work for the interests of the associa¬ 
tion, benehtting thus his calling, his country and himself. 
Blank applications will be gladly furnished by Secretary R. W. 
PElis, 509 W. 152d Street, New York City. 
Dr. Salmon on Judge Rodgers’ Decision. —Concerning 
the decision of United States Judge Rodgers, at Kansas City, to 
the effect that the system of meat inspection no^y in practice by 
the Bureau of Animal Industry was unconstitutional. Dr. D. E. 
Salmon, chief of that Bureau, says : “ The decision, I think, 
is rather technical, and Judge Rodgers is probably a close con¬ 
structionist of the law. We rely on decisions of the United 
States vSnpreme Court for authority to show that the govern¬ 
ment has the right to inspect meats intended for interstate ship¬ 
ment. The intent of Congress when it enacted this legislation 
evidently was that the animal was a subject of interstate com¬ 
merce from the time it was shipped from the State in which it 
was raised until reaching the destination for consumption. 
There is nothing for the department to do in the case as it 
now stands. If the meat is inspected for domestic consumption 
entirely within the limits of the State, then the United States 
authorities cannot insist on an inspection, but just so soon as it 
passes beyond the borders then inspection will be necessary, as 
this requisite is imposed by the requirements of the law. A 
large amount of onr meats are now exported to Europe, and 
foreign countries will not accept them if not properly tagged 
and branded with the inspector’s mark. Should the decision of 
Judge Rodgers be accepted literally by the proprietors of the 
packing houses and should they refuse to permit our inspectors 
to do their work as heretofore, we shall when shipments reach 
the State boundaries, simply refuse to give a certificate of inspec¬ 
tion.” 
Veterinary Schools in the State. —The New York 
State Veterinary College is located at Ithaca on the campus of 
Cornell University, and the Legislature has voted thousands of 
the people’s money to equip it and keep it going. The an- 
nonncement for the coming year gives the class for 1897-1898. 
There are five third-year students, only one of whom is from 
