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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
over our opponents. We were in the right, and u Right means 
Might.” Facts are convincing, and by presenting facts and argu¬ 
ments to the legislators—Senators and the Representatives, to 
many of the influential farmers and friends, as well as the Gover¬ 
nor_and by the assistance and endorsements from boards of 
health, health protective associations, physicians and veterin¬ 
arians through the State, you have as a result of all this hard work 
to-day laws enacted establishing a u State Foard of \ eterinary 
Examiners” and a “State Rive Stock Sanitary Board.” 
And more than all this—you have seen the State of Pennsylva¬ 
nia placed in the front ranks with a State Veterinarian who stands 
second to none in this country. Thus it is, the Governor of this 
State has done honor to his State and to the veterinary profession 
in appointing our worthy President as State \ eterinarian of 1 enn- 
sylvania, a position to which he is peculiarly fitted, owing to his 
■character, ability, his thorough and special line of education. 
It is through such appointments of worth, fitness and ability that 
a method is found to elevate the veterinary profession in the 
eyes of the community and thus place the veterinarians more in 
those places of trust for which they, by their special line of 
study, are fitted—sanitary boards, boards of health, meat and 
milk inspectors, etc. 
It is to our State Veterinarian we are now to look to the es¬ 
tablishment of a thorough systematic sanitary supervision of the 
health of all animals, to the control, suppression and eradication, 
ns far as possible, of all contagious and infectious diseases, 
through the enactment of proper laws and measures for their 
control. Upon the early recognition of these diseases as well as 
the ability to introduce proper and prompt measures to grapple 
with them depends their control and eradication. 
During the past year all the members of this Association 
were furnished twice with statements of the amount of their in 
debtedness. All those who were in arrears were furnished with 
statements and notified from three to five times, and urged to 
remit the amount of their indebtedness, and thus place them¬ 
selves in good standing once more in this Association. On No¬ 
vember last all members were furnished with a statement of 
their indebtedness and slips of the amendment to the Constitu¬ 
tion and By-Laws. Also the motion passed at our last semi-an¬ 
nual meeting as a matter of information. Not less than one 
hundred letters were collected or received as a result of this 
amendment and motion. All of which have been answered and 
placed on file for future use. This motion has failed, as yet, to 
