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be told that —de facto —they are far below the par of ordinary 
application of knowledge and skill. They will understand 
that such equivocal position can only draw and retain few 
qualified men, and that there are at present unqualified men in 
active service for whom Congress should find an honorable out¬ 
let by pensioning them, commensurate with the long and faith¬ 
ful services rendered to the army and the country. And it 
should be explained to the members of Congress that modern 
veterinary education is fully equivalent to that of military edu¬ 
cation, and that the State of New York, for instance, exacts by 
law a higher standard of preliminary education for veterinary 
colleges than is demanded at the U. S. Military Academy lo¬ 
cated within her borders ; so that the personnel of an intelligent 
and efficient veterinary corps, as suggested above, could be 
easily secured if inducements are afforded to men of experience 
and standing in the veterinary profesMon to enter the military 
service. 
So far the knowledge of these disgraceful affairs in the army 
service has been confined to the War Department and to the 
veterinary profession of the country. But if they should be¬ 
come public, the people of the United States would rise in a 
storm of righteous indignation. They have loudly demon¬ 
strated that they want a clean, intelligent and humane treat¬ 
ment of their soldiers, and if they knew they would just as 
loudly condemn any inhumane and incapable treatment of the 
horse j for the human love of the horse is natural and is the en¬ 
dowment of a kind Creator, who has deeply stored it in the 
breast of man. 
Hippophagy. —In Paris, during the year 1897, 22,029 soli- 
peds were killed for consumption and sold at the numerous 
horse meat markets. These included 21,667 horses, 310 don¬ 
keys, 52 mules. At the slaughter house the meat seized by the 
inspectors represented in weight 204,209 kilogrammes and was 
comdemned from animals found to be suffering with glanders, 
hydrohsemia or other affections. 
