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of laymen, and on the other hand to fix the margin 

 of profit which the veterinarian may charge, or at 

 least to prevent 1 him from concealing from his 

 client the purchase price of the serum he uses. 



Legislation of the former type can result only in 

 disaster to the swine industry and harm to the 

 veterinary profession, but we do not believe there 

 are good reasons why the purchase price of serum 

 should not be known to the breeder. Obviously 

 the profession puts itself in a bad light when it 

 opposes legislation of this kind, unless it can justly 

 be opposed on the ground that the handling charge 

 proposed is not sufficient to cover costs of waste 

 and breakage. Such opposition only gives sub- 

 stance to the suspicion that there is something 

 to conceal. It is a principle which should be ob- 

 vious to all that if the veterinary profession is to 

 retain exclusive rights to administer serum and 

 virus it must exercise these rights in a manner to 

 justify this exclusion ; and any legislative attempts 

 to discipline the occasional renegade who habitu- 

 ally reaps an excessive profit on serum should, 

 and we believe will be, welcomed by the better ele- 

 ment in the veterinary profession. 



The veterinarian's fee for his work is his own 

 private concern, and the compensation he can com- 

 mand depends for the most part on the skill and 

 knowledge which he employs to benefit his client ; 

 but the best interests of the public demand that the 



