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does any kind of veterinary work at all, especially those who have 

 anything to do with the treatment or immunization of live stock, 

 should be required to secure a license for that purpose. When- 

 ever any incompetent or fraudulent work is done the license can 

 be revoked. At present there are numerous unlicensed persons 

 going about the State using hog cholera serum and, in many 

 cases, causing heavy losses. There are also those who are 

 absolutely incompetent, making fake health certificates for 

 dairy cattle. The veterinary practice act should by all means 

 be so amended as to fix the responsibility in such cases so that all 

 offending parties could be brought to justice. 



HOG CHOLERA. 



Hog cholera is still quite widespread over the State. There 

 is no definite plan in operation in this State for its control, and 

 nobody in particular is charged with its control. There is no 

 effective system for securing information as to its prevalence. 

 It would be difficult for anybody to place the responsibility for 

 the lack of results in hog cholera control work. It still seems 

 to me that our system (if what we are doing may be called a 

 system) is seriously at fault, and the whole matter needs to be 

 gone over and some organization perfected which will be effective 

 in controlling hog cholera. By all means some definite plan 

 ought to be worked out and presented to the public so that hog 

 owners might know whom to depend upon for assistance, with 

 whom to co-operate and whom to hold responsible for lack of 

 results. 



' It has become very evident that if any department is to 

 control hog cholera without unusual and unnecessary expense it 

 must be vested with authority to quarantine affected hogs, 

 enforce various police measures, be supplied with potent hog 

 cholera serum, and must be prepared to take charge of out- 

 breaks promptly. It is to be regretted that for the lack of such 

 an organization being perfected promptly at the time hog cholera 

 serum was discovered the State has since unnecessarily lost 

 millions of dollars worth of hogs. 



According to recommendations to your Board from time to 

 time, and strongly urged at the annual meeting, December 28, 

 1910, and through the persistent urging of my predecessor, a 

 system has at last been inaugurated whereby stock hogs may be 

 vaccinated and taken from the public yards for stock purposes. 



