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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
yotir great Veterinary Review, for having kept me so well 
informed on all the professional topics of the day. With very 
best wishes for the success of the Review, I am, very truly, 
T. S. Childs^ Saratoga Springs^ N. Y. 
—“ I would not like to be without your journal. When I 
look around me and see the country full of “ hoss doctors,” who 
take cases on the no-cure-no-pay plan, I feel that you should not 
allow them to be subscribers to the Review, as one I know reads 
it regularly ; it is too good for him. I had one of them ask me 
the other day how I drenched a cow so that the draught would 
go first into the third stomach. Rub his name off of your list.” 
— l.J. Pence^ Troy^ O. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
MISSOURI VALLEY VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSO¬ 
CIATION. 
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Dr. W. W. Johnston, M. D., D. V. S., of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, stationed at St. Joseph, was then called upon, 
and read the following paper, entitled 
“ MUNICIPAL MEAT AND MILK INSPECTION.” 
For the purposes of this paper, the subject will be treated 
from the popular standpoint, with statement of facts in relation 
thereto, and not present in the full details of the pathological 
conditions of the diseases mentioned, the presumption being 
that all present are familiar with that part of the subject. I do 
not hope to present new and more cogent reasons for such in¬ 
spection than are well known to you. Perhaps the agitation 
of the subject will serve the purpose of educating the public to 
a point where they will insist upon the most complete and 
painstaking inspection, and demand that all avenues of trade be 
closed against meats and dairy products that are diseased, un¬ 
wholesome or offensive, or repugnant to the consumer. Refer¬ 
ring to meat inspection Dr. Salmon, chief of the B. A. I., says: 
“ A meat inspection service which does not protect the consum¬ 
ers from meat offensive to them, and which they would under 
no circumstances purchase, if they knew its character, would 
not be worthy of support.” The importance of meats and 
milk as articles of diet is well known to all. Their use is uni¬ 
versal. We daily realize Jheir importance as we sit down to 
the typical American table. Our American people, from the 
man who earns his livelihood by manual labor to those who 
