Dr. Conhey Kicks Again

Dr. L. L. Conkey, the dean of the Grand Rapids veterinary college, in the Grand Rapids Democrat gives State Veterinarian Dunphy another shot on the anthrax question. The letters of Dr. Conkey, declaring that the cause of the death of the sheep on William Rushton's farm near Manchester, was anthrax and the letter of Dr. Dunphy denying it, were published in the Daily Argus. The representative of the Democrat called on Dr. Conkey and asked him, "What have you to say as to whether anthrax did exist on the Rushton farm last summer? '

Mr. Conkey answered: "I am certain that it not only did exist, but that it does at this moment exist there and will for many years to come. Why does Mr. Dunphy attack the college in this matter? In the first place Mr. Dunphy and his followers are sore because they failed to oust Dr. Hare, of Allegan, from the state veterinary board, of which he is now president. Now then, if Mr. Dunphy and his Ann Arbor friends are half as clever as they profess to be they will surely accept a fair proposition and have this matter settled at once."

"What proposition have you to make to Mr. Dunphy and his Ann Arbor friends?" was asked.

"If Governor Pingree will appoint a committee of bacteriologists to investigate as to whether anthrax in any form does exist on the William Rushton farm, the Grand Rapids Veterinary college will, in case there are no indications of anthrax, pay the entire expense of said investigation provided that if anthrax does exist Mr. Danphy will pay the expenses so incurred. Mr. Dunphy has been talking a good deal while traveling about the state in his official capicity about our college and we think that the governor should call him down just a little, and the investigation of this anthrax question will settle the question of his ability to act as state veterinarian. The public will be the judges in this matter after the investigation is over.

"Dunphy, I understaud, is one of the men who is liable to be called before the state veterinary exaruiuing board, and it looks as if he needed examination"