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of the reform set on foot by General Meigs, for so soon as culti¬ 
vated veterinary surgeons acquire the control of the management 
of the sick public animals, system will soon become manifest in 
sensible measures, not only for the proper and humane care of 
disabled animals, but also for the prevention of disease among 
them, and an end will be put to the ignorant butchery that has 
been practiced in the army by farriers, who for the most part, 
have had the charge of the sick public animals; this has been no 
fault of the farriers, who have worked with such lights as they 
possessed, but the fault of those who have had ;sucli matters in 
charge, and who are they % Strange enough, no one in authority 
that I have heard of has given this subject the amount of atten¬ 
tion that it seems to me it deserves—attention enough to discover 
the fact that the horses of the American army require as much 
care as those of the armies of France, England and Germany, 
wherein I learn there is a regularly established veterinary depart¬ 
ment, as scientific and as well organized as the medical depart¬ 
ments for the benefit of the men of those armies. 
I am not in humor to go on any further with this subject at 
this time, but I think I have said enough to convince Dr. Meyer 
that there is a prospect of a solid improvement in the veterinary 
department of the army. 
Very faithfully, 
Edw. P. Vollum, 
Surgeon, U. S. Army. 
THE MILK WE USE AND THE SOURCE IT COMES FROM. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
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The time is fast approaching when society at large will expect 
and demand more of the veterinary profession in the way of cer¬ 
tifying as to the healthy condition of the animals slaughtered for 
their use, and particularly that the animals supplying us with so 
important and extensive an article of diet as milk, be properly 
fed, housed and of a healthy condition. 
I have seen so much of late of the condition of the animals 
