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The appointment by proper authority of official veterinary 
inspectors of high education and efficiency, and clothing these 
with ample power to do effective service. 
The exclusion of defective breeding stallions from foreign 
countries by rigid inspection at ports of entry. 
The periodical inspection of all breeding stallions, whether 
of domestic or foreign origin, and the prompt condemnation of 
all such as may at any time develop defects or disease which 
may be transmitted to their progeny. 
The procuring of such breeding laws as will favor the use 
of approved stallions, either by a state subsidy to them or the 
exclusion of condemned stallions from public service, or by a 
sufficient per capita tax upon the defective animal, with free¬ 
dom from such taxation upon the approved animal. 
The exclusion of defective stallions from horse and agricul¬ 
tural fairs, allowing them neither in show ring nor in show 
stalls. 
Such a scheme, we believe, would tend to the diffusion of 
knowledge regarding the science of horse breeding, and would 
found an authoritative and reliable standard by which non-ex¬ 
pert horse-breeders could measure the value of a given sire. 
We have already established precedents for laws regarding 
the repression of undesirable breeding animals, there being at 
present in many states a differential per capita tax on dogs, 
males and spayed females, carrying a minimum tax, while en¬ 
tire females, which are undesirable for social or economic rea¬ 
sons, are required to pay a maximum tax, in order to discourage 
the keeping of inferior and improperly cared for animals, and 
thus tend to limit the production of inferior dogs. 
NOTES ON HERMAPHRODITISM. 
By G. W. Butler, V. S., Milwaukee, Wis. 
Thinking the following notes on an hermaphrodite would 
be interesting to the readers of the Review, I herein enclose 
them for publication : 
