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ers, and without exception they testify to the value of such 
material and assert that they never fail to read every line of it 
with deep interest. We make a note of the fact that not one 
who thus commends it ever contributed a line towards its en¬ 
hancement, yet they were men of large experience, coming in 
contact daily with cases which would make the department 
fairly sparkle with added brightness. Each subscriber should 
feel it his duty to make this'the forum of practical discussion. 
The method of administering wood charcoal in acute gas¬ 
tric and duodenal indigestion by first depriving it of its residual 
gas by heat, as advocated by Dr. Goubeaud before the New 
York County V. M. Association, is proving very efficient in 
practice in the hands of a number of veterinarians. 
The Coeorado Anti-Docking Daw.— The following is the 
text of the bill recently passed by the Colorado Legislature : 
Section i. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dock 
the tail of any horse within the State of Colorado, or to procure the 
same to be docked, or to import or bring into this State any docked 
horse, or horses, or to drive, work, use, race, or deal in any unregis¬ 
tered docked horse, or horses, within the State of Colorado. 
Sec. 2. Within 90 days after the passage of this act, every owner or 
user of any docked horse within the State of Colorado shall register his 
or her docked horse or horses, by filing in the office of the county clerk 
and recorder of the county in which such docked horse, or horses, may 
then be kept, a certificate, which certificate shall contain the name or 
names of the owner, together with his or her post office address, a full 
description of the color, age, size and the use made of such docked 
horse, or horses ; which certificate shall be signed by the owner or his or 
her agent. The county clerk shall number such certificates consecu¬ 
tively and record the same in a book or register to be kept for that pur¬ 
pose only, and shall receive as a fee for the recording of such certificate 
the sum of fifty cents. 
Sec. 3. The driving, working, keeping, racing, or using of any un¬ 
registered docked horse or horses after ninety days after the passage of 
this act, shall be deemed prima faeie evidence of the fact that the party 
driving, working, keeping, racing or using such unregistered docked 
horse or horses, docked the tail of such horse or horses. 
Sec. 4. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this 
act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall 
be punished by a fine in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor 
more than five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in county jail not 
less than thirty days nor more than ninety days for each offence, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 
