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stage, so high a degree of inflammation wtll perhaps have taken 
place that suppuration cannot be prevented. 
While a horse is worked, the shoe should be frequently ex¬ 
amined ; and whenever the heel appears to be so near the dis¬ 
eased part as to be in danger of bearing on it, it should be 
immediately removed, and some more horn pared away, so as to 
have a considerable vacancy between the heel of the hoof and 
the heel of the shoe, for even if a bar-shoe be applied, the horn 
will in time grow down, so as to be in contact with the heel of 
the shoe. 
fl^he above is supposed to be about all that is required for 
corns, but will it cure corns? In some cases it will, in some it 
will not. It will not cure necrosis of cartilage nor necrosis of 
the os pedis, neither will it prevent lameness from ossification 
of the cartilages and the inflammation accompanying it. These 
and other inflammatory conditions of the heels, falsely called 
corns, must be treated by more radical measures. 
MEAT AND MILK INSPECTION. 
B\ H. F. Palmer, V. S., Brooklyn, Mich. 
A Paper read before the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association at the recent meeting 
*at Lansing. 
Gucn d the food of the people and you guard their health .” 
We, as a nation, have just passed through a struggle that 
has cost the lives of many of her brave sons, and out of that 
struggle has grown a controversy in regard to the food of its 
army. “Embalmed beef,” “rotten beef,” are the words upon 
the lips of many. We view these published statements and re¬ 
cord the word “awful,” and at times are inclined to dethrone 
our own beloved secretary of war, and at the same time we 
allow a food to be given to our own family—yes, and to our 
own children, that for the number of deadly bacteria contained 
the Cuban beef would be a sickly comparison. 
\\ e wonder and abhor at the death rate of our wars and 
think it is something terrible ; but we rest content and each 
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