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of the veterinarians registered under section 3 are competent men. 

 Some few, however, among this number secured diplomas from 

 colleges which did not maintain a thorough course of instruction. 

 Section 4 of the Veterinary Act provided for the registration of 

 anyone after January 1, 1906, only on condition that he pass a 

 satisfactory examination before the Veterinary Board. Under this 

 section 37. persons have been registered. The examinations have 

 all been held in writing. The questions have consisted of ten each 

 on the subjects of theory and practice, medicine and surgery, and 

 were so framed that their correct answer would require a knowl- 

 edge on the part of the applicant of pathology, physiology and 

 anatomy. All applicants have been required to make 70 per cent 

 on each set of questions. While the Veterinary Examining Board 

 has endeavored to make all examination questions extremely prac- 

 tical, one or more applicants from each college represented so far 

 has failed to pass. The papers of all of those who failed, enclosing 

 in the handwriting of the applicant the questions which he at- 

 tempted to answer, have been placed on file for reference, in case 

 of dispute. I will add further that it has been the custom of the 

 Veterinary Board to require each applicant for examination to 

 sign his name to a secret list opposite some number which he used 

 on his paper during the examination, and that all papers have been 

 graded and the applicant passed upon, as far as possible, without 

 a personal knowledge, upon the part of the Board, of whose appli- 

 cation it had under consideration. In dealing with all applicants, 

 the Board has made every effort to be impartial. 



Anticipating enough extra work to keep one busy, I advised 

 the Board, at a meeting February 10th, to employ a deputy veteri- 

 narian for constant work. Following this recommendation, the 

 Executive Committee employed Dr. R. L. Allen, a graduate of the 

 Kansas City Veterinary College, who at the time was in the federal 

 meat inspection service. Dr. Allen began work February 15th and 

 was employed until March 30th in making tuberculin tests of dairy 

 cattle. From March 30th to May 15th he was employed in Laclede 

 county in hunting up and quarantining sheep affected with scabies. 

 From May 15th to June 15th he was again employed in making 

 tuberculin tests. From June 20th to December 1st he was employed 

 in Southwest Missouri in the work of stamping out Texas fever. 



During the time he spent in Laclede county, Dr. Allen placed 

 in quarantine 129 bunches of sheep, including a total of 2,999 head, 

 which he found affected with scabies. At the time of sei-ving the 

 quarajitiiie jiotice, the owJier of the sheep was supplied with writ- 



