594 
OLOF SCHWARZKOPF. 
Department, Subsistence Department, etc. They wear uniforms 
similar to those of the line officers, and their pay and allowances 
correspond to the grades of majors, captains and lieutenants of 
the mounted service. In both armies a colonel of cavalry is the 
Inspector-General of the military veterinary service. The in¬ 
structive divisions of these army departments are especially 
commendable to other armies as they furnish instructors of mili¬ 
tary veterinary science to the officers attending the cavalry, ar¬ 
tillery and riding-schools, to the advanced military cadets, to 
the Subsistence Department for the inspection of meats, and to 
the many excellent schools for arm3^-shoeing smiths. 
Jov the EstctblishiTie^tt of ci VeteTinciTy ]D€pctvt7fi67if 
of the U. S. Army. —Considering that the above sketched army 
veteiinary organizations are intended as working units for 
much larger standing armies, we must necessarily reduce our 
own future veterinary department to a size and standing com¬ 
mensurate with the extent of the United States army. It mat¬ 
ters little whether the present ten regiments of cavalry are re¬ 
tained or extended to twelve, but it is hoped that the three 
regiments of field artillery may be established as recommended 
by the Army Reorganization Bill, and it is further hoped that 
the thousands of detached horses and mules of the Quartermasters 
Department may be formed into companies or battalions of 
transportation. As far as the numbers of public animals and 
their professional supervision are concerned we must note here 
the astonishing fact that in 1890, the British War Departme^it 
controlled I'Iff 00 public aiiijuals and had an established veteri¬ 
nary coips of 200 veterinary officers^ ivhereas the United States 
army at the same ti 7 )ie controlled about ij^ooo public animals 
and e^nployed foicrteen civilian veterinarians. 
We cannot touch here upon the reasons for this wide diver¬ 
gence, but from it alone it appears hopeless to suggest the estab¬ 
lishment of a complete veterinary corps in the United States 
army. Thus we must commence at a modest scale and yet try 
to make this service effective. This can be accomplished, the 
writer believes, by establishing a corps of 40 veterinary officers 
