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bing well around the wound, and you will never have to catch 
a calf to treat it, nor faill you ever lose one from castration.” 
Red Bade Brand Stock Food. —This food is now a thor¬ 
oughly established article among veterinarians, and the manu¬ 
facturers report regularly increasing demand from all parts of 
the country, while those who first began its use are employing 
it upon an increasing scale. As an intestinal stimulant and 
digester of herbiverous food it is of great assistance in horses 
suffering from indigestion, especially due to defective assimila¬ 
tion—those animals which, while partaking of a sufficient quan¬ 
tity of grain, yet remain thin—and those which are bloated 
and hidebound from fermentation. As a menstruum to disguise 
worm medicines, tonic powders, or other special prescriptions 
for systemic effects it is of great service, as horses are fond of 
it, and they will readily eat it, not only when mixed with their 
food, but when given alone. It is not a secret mixture, but 
Messrs. Atkins & Dutbrow, the manufacturers, 160 Piarl 
Street, New York, will send the formula to any veterinarian 
interested. The chief ingredients are St. John’s bread, paltus, 
celery, the chloride of sodium, etc. We cheerfully recommend 
it, after years of constant employment. 
A Dwindling Institution. —On another page we print a 
very painful statement taken from the American Veterinary 
Review. According to what is there stated we may in a short 
time see the complete failure of the efforts of a generous and 
high-minded corporation to maintain a veterinary school. We 
feel quite sure that everything has been done at Harvard to 
give veterinary teaching a fair chance, but of course we cannot 
expect that university to go on losing money forever. All the 
same, it is very pitiable and very disheartening to see the 
gradual decline and the approaching extinction of our branch 
of medical science there. It will be noticed that the Dean 
hopes for a public endowment, which will save the department 
before it reaches its last gasp, but that is problematical. What 
a chance for a millionaire, what an opportunity of achieving 
immortality and the grateful applause of his fellows whilst on 
earth ! But it is more ; it is an appeal to the American Gov¬ 
ernment to show itself worthy of its great traditions. We trust 
some wise man will take up the cause of veterinary medicine, 
and pass a measure which will secure the future of an excel¬ 
lent institution. With its enormous extent of territory, its vast 
breadth of corn-land, requiring the help of horses for its culti¬ 
vation, its huge cities, and its immense net-work of railways, 
