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belonged to the hog industry and had to be 

 endured. 



Probably one reason for this was the scarcity 

 of graduate veterinary practitioners. This 

 makes the employment of veterinary services an 

 expensive matter and both the hogs and the 

 farmers suffer in consequence thereof. 



I spoke to one farmer about this when he was 

 telling me of the loss of sixty hogs from cholera. 

 I asked him why he didn't get a veterinarian to 

 treat his hogs with serum. He said he would if 

 there were any veterinarians close enough to 

 make it a reasonable proposition. The nearest 

 practitioner to his farm was about forty miles 

 away; he was usually too busy to attend to calls 

 at such a distance, and even if he could be 

 induced to come, his charge for one trip would 

 cost as much as two or three hogs. 



The country in this region is just on the line 

 between a farming country and a ranching 

 country; a veterinarian there must have an 

 immense area to work over in order to be able to 

 exist and it will be many years until the country 

 can support more practitioners there. 



There are many towns in which there are 

 apparently good openings for a veterinarian; 

 when one comes to look the field over, however, 

 he usually finds that if he could get all the work 

 for twenty miles in every direction he would be 

 barely able to make ends meet on expenses. 



As is usually the case where the farmers have 

 not come in contact very much with graduate 

 veterinarians, so it is there also, namely, the 



