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standpoint of a common fellow “up a tree, 1 ’ I must necessarily 
confine myself to generalities. But 1 am convinced the matter 
needs looking after. It is too easy a matter for a few men of 
uncertain attainments in a big city to organize a college and 
divide among themselves the professorships, for the sake of the 
advertising and advantage they would secure in the line of local 
practice, and rope in students at good round fees, to whom they 
could impart little practical and correct information. It is an 
easy matter, I say, and should be made less easy. If there are 
students who honestly desire to qualify themselves in the profes¬ 
sion they should be protected from the danger of wasting their 
time and money in such quarters as these. I have before me a 
catalogue of an institution which seems to me to read very 
strangely, in which it is offered to graduate country practitioners 
—the “ boss ” and “ cow ” doctors of the cross-roads, the erstwhile 
blacksmiths and stable boys grown beyond their attainments— 
after attending one course of lectures ! Heaven save the country 
from the infliction of such veterinarians ! One course of lectures ! 
As a rule it would take several courses to unlearn these men the 
vicious and barbarous things they think they know already and 
reduce their minds to that state of vacancy where they could 
receive correct impressions. They would have the real profession 
to acquire afterwards. 
CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AROUND 
NEW YORK CITY. 
Hon. Geo. B. Boring, Commissioner of Agriculture, has sent 
us a copy of a very valuable report, made to the Department by 
his veterinary inspectors in and around Hew York City, Brooklyn 
and Jersey City. The report is dated New York, Nov. 19, and 
is as follows: 
To Hon. Geo.B. Loving , U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture : 
The undersigned veterinary inspectors under the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry, appointed by you to investi¬ 
gate the condition of the cow stables of New York, Brooklyn 
and Jersey City, and the amount of contagious pleuro-pneumouia 
