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wait four hours just the same ; but there were others. Moral: 
don’t stop on the way. 
MAINE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The regular meeting of the association was held at the 
Windsor House, Belfast, July 13, at 7.30 p. m. President West 
in the chair. A fair number of members responded to the 
roll-call. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
accepted. 
Dr. I. L. Salley read a paper upon “Tetanus,” which was 
freely discussed. 
The report of the New Hampshire Cattle Commissioners, in 
the F. B. Shedd case at Northfield, was read and the conclusions 
of the Board criticised. We believe that the tuberculin test is 
the only reliable test for tuberculosis ; that when several tests 
are made within the year, the first test is the only reliable one. 
That apparently healthy cows w^hich react by the test are often 
just as dangerous as some that show the disease by physical ex¬ 
amination. And so we believe that the cows released and re¬ 
turned to Mr. Shedd’s herd may be just as dangerous as those 
that were destroyed. 
Voted to adjourn and meet at Waterville in October. 
I. F. Salley, D. V. S., Sect'^y. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Read the programme of the Omaha Convention, and ask 
yourself if you can afford to stay at home. 
A HORSE will eat in a year nine times his own weight, a cow 
nine times, an ox six times and a sheep six times. 
“ Equine Pathology,” by Dr. H. D. Hanson, now in course 
of publication, is announced for delivery by the middle of Sep¬ 
tember. 
Frank R. Hanson, D. V. S., of New York, reported ill 
with pleurisy in the June Review, has recovered and is spend¬ 
ing a convalescentE^acation in the mountains. 
Dr. E. M. Beckley, Meriden, Conn., very narrowly escaped 
being killed by the kick of a horse on June ist. After a 
month’s entire disability he returned to his duties. 
Secretary Morris, of the New York State Veterinary 
Medical Society, was in New York, August ist, making arrange- 
