The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-24
PROF. BREWER FAVORS
 HORSEFLESH FOR FOOD
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introduced pr. w. H. Dalrymple of Louisiana, who responded to the toast
 southern Progress" Dr. Dalrymple said that northern people no longer held in such dread the south which they had pictured to themselves as the land of crocodiles, mosquitoes and vel low fever. The doctors have success fully combatted these terrors. Indeed he said he had suffered more from mosquitoes during his stoy in New Haven than during the whole summer in Louisiana. He recounted briefly the agricultural and mineral wealth of his state.
 Tho second speaker was Professor. w. H. Brewer. He greered the doctors in the name of Yale university, and said because Yale was so poor she had not been able to establish veterinary department. He asserted that Yale was a fountain head of science, ana that no university had done more in the in- terests of science than Yale. She was the first to have a professor of agrl- culture, and the first to have de- partment of agriculture. Connecticut was the first state to establish an agri- cultural experiment station as such. He declared the domestic animals were works of art, because they are the product of centuries of breeding under mans supervision, and they differ so much from their ancestors or wild specimens that 1t is in most cases im- possible to tell what their ancestors must have been like He praised the man who could devote his time to the study of their diseases and tried to find a cure for them. Veterinarians, he said, had not only done great good to the animal Kingdom, but had aided the medical profession and put 1t on the right track in almost every crisis.
 Professor Brewer predicted the two minute horse thirty years ago. He says that is the limit of possibility, land that hereafter breeding will only be able to produce more horses able to reach the standard, He then advocat- ed the eating of horseflesh, and said that the proper way to dispose of the old horse was to fatten him and dis pose of him for meat. Horses were less subject to disease, and, therefore, the flesh would be more wholesome. He wanted to see the time when horse flesh would be freely eaaten.
 Professor Brewers remarks on this point were taken up by almost every one of the succeeding speakers, who took occasion to speak a good word for the ftithful old horse.
 The next toast was Veterinary Edu- cation and the Stock Owner and was responded to by the Hon. H. I. Hol- comb Mir Holcomb said that cattle should be inspected on the ranches and plains before being sent to the stock yards. This, he claimed, would be a more effective way to keep out infested meat.
 In responding to the toast, silver Anniversary" Dr. W. H. Hoskins spoke of his 25 years connection with the association and gave a brief account of the rise of the organization to its pres lent important position,
 During his response to the toast, "The A. V. NJ. A." Dr. w H. Lowe presented Dr. Haskins with a punch bowl service. Dr. Hosikns expressed his appreciation and thanks.
 Hon. W. H. Warner then responded to the toast The State of Connecticut" He said that Connecticuts most finish ed products were her distinguished sons and daughters. He paid splendid