SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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organizations in large cities and towns around which center thickly 
populated counties and districts. Wherever sufficient members 
of the profession may be drawn together to form even a small 
organization affords part of the work that is before us to accom¬ 
plish. It demands from us as one of the oldest local organiza¬ 
tions to take the most aggressive part in many lines of new work, 
and to dispose of them in such a manner as will tend to enhance 
the value and good of our State organizations, and make more 
complete and broader the organization that shall represent us in 
national matters. 
I therefore appeal to you, fellow-members, to not be unmind¬ 
ful of the duties that may fall to your lot during this coming 
year. They will be many, and they will fall thick and fast, and 
they must ever find you ready to fulfill your part, and thus com¬ 
plete the duty which you assumed when you entered the pro¬ 
fession of your choice. None of us can afford to take a selfish 
view of the calling which we have adopted. It must not be con¬ 
sidered wholly in the light of a means to secure a rich livelihood 
or of money-making; but we have entered upon a profession 
that needs to-day stronger men than ever, who are willing to 
render some services to make veterinary science what it is des¬ 
tined to be in America. The breadth of our calling is so unlim¬ 
ited that the time must soon come when we must act as a sani¬ 
tarian in the broad sense of the word, as a police in the protection 
of our people from diseases which our animals and men are alike 
subject to, guard the great food sources—the supply of meat and 
milk; as well as to execute the regulations that shall insure to 
our people a complete safeguard from the dangers that are therein 
threatened. The time is not far distant when all this and much 
more will fall to your lot, and unless the preparatory work is 
done now and done faithfully for those who are to follow after 
you in your calling, the science and profession which you promised 
to uphold, will find itself ill-prepared to perform these duties and 
work; and upon you and I must fall the responsibility in great 
measure of any failure that may ensue in this direction, bor 
these reasons I feel that we have no right to simply indulge in 
all the good things that may follow in the course of our work; 
