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they think it is too much for one veterinarian, so they have en¬ 
gaged me to go. Dr. Welch came from San Francisco with 
them. I sincerely hope we will have good luck and do well 
with the stock. It is hard to* say, as we will be very much 
cramped for room, and will have a 21 to 24 days voyage. I will 
return to Honolulu in the course of two or three months. Dr. 
Plummer is still at the Presidio, Cal., and not in Manila, as I 
saw in the Review. I might write you an account of the life 
on a mule ship.” 
What a Subscriber Wants to Know. —A correspondent 
using the nom de plume of “ Subscriber” writes as follows : u Of 
late I notice quite a number of writers on flatulent colic in the 
Review, and it appears that all lack a knowledge of treatment, 
as in nearly every case they lose the horse. As a subscriber to 
the Review, I think it would be a good turn on your part if 
you would make known to your readers the best treatment in 
existence for flatulent colic, as there appears to be a lack of 
knowledge of the proper drugs to expel the gas and arrest fer¬ 
mentation of the stomach without the use of the trocar.” “ Sub¬ 
scriber ” will bear in mind that the Review editors are not pos¬ 
sessed of knowledge upon this subject which is not accessible to 
all members of the profession, and that they are merely collectors 
of the observations and experiences of others coupled with 
those of their own. We refer him to the legend which has for 
so long adorned the heading of the department of u Reports of 
Cases.” 
Missouri Farmers’ Institutes. —The Missouri State 
Board of Agriculture is a very progressive department, if one 
may judge by its programme of meetings for the past autumn, 
as well as the variety of subjects discussed, and the cordial man¬ 
ner in which it addresses its constituents. The meetings con¬ 
tinue for two days at each point, and three sessions are held 
each day. For October and November forty meetings were an¬ 
nounced, and the subjects included questions pertaining to every 
phase of agricultural and live stock industries. State Veteri¬ 
narian T. E. White was almost compelled to eclipse the cy¬ 
clonic campaign of Candidate Bryan, as the programme made 
the following announcement: “ Dr. T. E. White, State Veter¬ 
inarian, will attend all the meetings, and talk upon the State 
Live Stock Sanitary Service, diseases of stock and the breeding 
of stock from a sanitary standpoint.” If it were a lesser per¬ 
sonage than the versatile White we would suppose that there 
was a misprint in the announcement. 
