1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
45 
A VETERINARY SURGEON. 
NOT QUALIFIED BY HOME STUDY. 
Can a person study veterinary science at home 
so that he would be allowed to practice ? c. i. h. 
Nunda, N. Y. 
The Requirements. —Chapter 860, of 
laws of New York of 1895, regulates ad¬ 
mission to the practice of Veterinary 
Medicine and Surgery in this State. 
Qualifications for practice are pre¬ 
scribed in section 171. 
No person shall practice veterinary medicine 
after July 1, 1895, unless previously registered 
and legally authorized, unless licensed by the 
regents, and registered as required by this 
article. Nor shall any person practice veterin¬ 
ary medicine who has ever been convicted of a 
felony by any court, or whose authority to prac¬ 
tice is suspended or revoked by the regents on 
recommendation of the State Board. 
Sections 172 to 175 provide for the 
formation and work of a “ State Board 
of Veterinary Medical Examiners,” on 
whose decision and recommendation the 
regents shall issue licenses to practice. 
Section 176, regulating admission to 
examination, covers the ground of in¬ 
quiry, and reads as follows : 
The regents shall admit to examination any 
candidate who pays a fee of ten dollars and 
submits satisfactory evidence, verified by oath 
if required, that he (first) is more than twenty- 
one years of age; (second) is of good moral char¬ 
acter; (third) has the general education required 
in all cases after July 1, 1897, preliminary to re¬ 
ceiving a degree in veterinary medicine; (fourth) 
has studied veterinary medicine not less than three 
full years, including three satisfactory courses, in 
three different academic years, in the veterinary 
medical school registered as maintaining at the time 
a satisfactory standard; (fifth) has received a degree 
as veterinarian from some registered veterinary medi¬ 
cal school. * * The degree in veterinary medicine 
shall not be conferred in this State before the 
candidate has filed with the institution confer¬ 
ring it, the certificate of the regents that three 
years before the date of the degree, or before or 
during his first year of veterinary medical study 
in this State, he has either graduated from a 
registered college, or satisfactorily completed 
an academic course in a registered academy or 
high school; or has a preliminary education con¬ 
sidered and accepted by the regents as fully 
equivalent; or has passed regents’ examinations 
equivalent to the minimum requirement in such 
preliminary education for candidates for med¬ 
ical or dental degrees in this State . Students 
who had matriculated in a veterinary medical 
school before October 1, 1895, shall be exempted 
from this preliminary education requirement, 
provided the degree be conferred before July 1, 
1898. The regents may, in their discretion, ac¬ 
cept as the equivalent of any part of the third 
and fourth requirement, evidence of five or more 
years’ reputable practice, provided that such 
substitution be specified in the license. 
Home Study. —The licensee has further 
to register under oath that he is the 
person referred to, etc., in the “Veterin¬ 
ary Medical Register ” kept by the 
county clerk of the county in which he 
proposes to practice. The above sets 
forth clearly the actual law on the 
statute books which regulates admis¬ 
sion to the practice of veterinary medi¬ 
cine in this State. C. I. H. will see that 
it is impossible to secure a license to 
practice by pursuing his studies at home, 
just as it is practically impossible to 
carry on successfully all the requisite 
studies in chemistry, anatomy, physi¬ 
ology, microscopy, microscopic anatomy, 
bacteriology, pathology, embryology, 
etc., apart from the laboratories specially 
fitted up for their pursuit, and it is just 
as impossible satisfactorily to pursue 
the more practical studies of medicine, 
surgery, sanitary science, parasitism, 
obstetrics, zootomy, etc., apart from 
practical or clinical demonstration. 
Something could, of course, be done with 
each of these, but apart from the college 
with its laboratories and clinics, no 
thorough and satisfactory work can be 
accomplished. 
One modification of the exact letter of 
the law as given above is in force for the 
current year. On petition of the New 
York City Veterinary Colleges, the 
regents, after consultation with the At¬ 
torney General, agreed to issue for the 
current year (up to January 1, 1900) the 
veterinary student certificate on presenta¬ 
tion of .evidence that the candidate had 
successfully completed two years of high 
school work (24 regents’ high school 
counts). For students entering a veter¬ 
inary college in the State of New York, 
at the opening of the next academic year 
(September or October 1899) the veterin¬ 
ary student certificate will be given on 
a basis of 24 regents’ counts. For students 
entering in 1900 or later, the full re¬ 
quirement of 48 counts (four years of 
high school work) is legally in force the 
same as for medical and dental students. 
JAMES LAW. 
Director N. Y. State Vet. College. 
WORK OF “ THE CREAMERY SHARK.” 
Who He Is. —As stated last week, the 
“ creamery sharks ” are again at work 
in northern New York. It may interest 
new readers to know that “creamery 
sharks ” are dairy promoters who repre¬ 
sent firms that deal in dairy supplies. 
These men go about the country hunt¬ 
ing for places where farmers are talking 
about erecting a creamery. Their plan 
is to go into such a neighborhood and 
secure two or three “ leading citizens” 
who will help them work up their 
scheme. They drive about with these 
men from farm to farm, and talk up the 
great possibilities of dairying. Their 
object is to get the farmers to sign a 
contract, agreeing to take so many 
shares of stock in the creamery. The 
price they charge is generally an exor¬ 
bitant one, and often $1,000 or more 
above the figures asked by reputable 
houses. Working in this way, the 
“ creamery sharks” often get signatures 
to a contract under false pretenses, that 
is, the farmers who sign do not under¬ 
stand the matter at all, and in many 
cases, they are not prepared to go into 
the creamery business. The “ prominent 
citizens ” who help work up this scheme, 
are usually rewarded by securing a num¬ 
ber of shares of stock, either for nothing 
or at a very low price. This way of 
starting a creamery is about the most 
expensive method that can be thought 
of. While some creameries organized 
by these promoters have proved success¬ 
ful, the great majority of them fail after 
a short run. There are usually two 
causes for these failures: The invest¬ 
ment cost too much in the first place, 
and the factory is usually made too large 
for the supplyof milk available from the 
surrounding country. 
Let Him Alone.— Prof. C. S. Plumb, 
of the Indiana Experiment Station, is¬ 
sues a circular against the “ creamery 
sharks ”. He says that he knows of 50 
creameries in Indiana which cost origin¬ 
ally over $2,000 each, and which are now 
defunct. He says that creamery build¬ 
ings may be erected for from $500 to 
$1,000, and equipped with machinery for 
handling 10,000 pounds of milk per day 
at a total cost of $2,500. He says that 
no cooperative creamery should ever be 
established before the stockholders and 
patrons have guaranteed to deliver a 
certain amount of milk per day during 
the year. Without milk, the creameTy 
cannot live. Generally, these “cream¬ 
ery sharks” bluff their way through any 
difficulty. Many times a farmer signs a 
contract under these conditions, and 
will pay his dues even at a loss rather 
than stand a lawsuit. Our advice in 
such matters is for the farmer to refuse 
to have anything to do with these 
“ creamery sharks ”. If enticed into the 
thing under false pretenses, we would 
advise him to hang to his money, and 
under no circumstances be bluffed or 
frightened out of it. As a rule, these 
fellows will not bring a lawsuit, for 
they know very well that, if they do, 
their methods will receive an airing that 
will do them more harm than anything 
else that could happen to them. 
H. Hayworth, of State College, Pa., the secre¬ 
tary of the Pennsylvania Dairy Union, sends a 
report of the butter contest held at the last an¬ 
nual meeting. This meeting was largely attended, 
and was a success throughout. We notice that 
the highest scoring butter was a creamery print 
which scored 97 points, 42 Y% on flavor, which was 
the highest mark in this class given during the 
contest. In dairy packages, W. M. Benninger 
won first with 94*4 points, and third In dairy 
prints, with the same number. 
A cow in Pennsylvania has dropped three 
calves, a bull and two heifers. Will both heifers 
be free-martins ? That is a question for some of 
our experts 
During the reign of the Emperor Napoleon, 
many good Short-horn cattle were carried from 
England to France. They have been bred there, 
and now it is said that the Argentine cattle 
growers prefer these French Short-horns to the 
English stock. 
The average human body contains iron enough 
to make seven large nails, the fat for 14 pounds 
of candles, and the phosphorus for 820,000 
matches. It would also give 20 coffeespoonfuls 
of salt, and 50 lumps of sugar; the latter even in 
the case of a sour and bilious man. 
The papers are filling up again with reports of 
various frog farms. Most of them are said to 
be located in New Jersey. One report has it that 
a school teacher was forced by ill health to re¬ 
sign her school duties, and almost immediately 
found health and fortune in the frog business. 
A few months ago, Mr. Scarff gave us a report 
from a Vermont farm. Certainly there was 
nothing healthy or wealthy anywhere in sight. 
True Economy 
Dairy economy, con¬ 
sists in getting the 
most out of your prod¬ 
uct. In getting the 
most cream in the 
and most churn- 
able form from a given 
amount of milk. In 
making the most sal¬ 
able, “sweet as a nut” 
kind of butter. Such 
economy results from 
the use of the Sharpies 
Cream Separators. Either 
the Safety Hand or Little Giant. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
Branches: West Chester, Pa 
Toledo, O. Omaha, Neb. 
Elgin, Ill. St. Paul, Minn. 
Dubuque, la. San Francisco, Cal. 
Cream Separators. 
One of our readers In western Massachusetts, 
up among the hills, says that they have great 
trouble with the foxes. There seem to be hun¬ 
dreds around about, and they steal large num¬ 
bers of chickens. The fox seems to come at about 
4 o’clock in the afternoon, preferring a wet, dis¬ 
mal day, when the farmers are not likely to be 
on guard. One advantage to poultry keeping 
near a large city is that the city sportsmen keep 
such game well killed off, although the chickens 
are in almost as great danger from these sports¬ 
men as they would be from the fox. 
De Laval “ Alpha " and “ Baby ” Separators. 
First—Best—Cheapest. All Styles—Sizes 
Prices, $50 to $800. 
Save HO per cow per year. Send for Catalogue. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO., 
Randolph and Canal Streets, I 74 Cortlandt Street, 
CHICAGO I NEW YORK. 
Top Price Butter. 
The kind that a fancy private 
Beef Cattle 
Work Horses 
Driving Horses 
Hogs and Sheep 
HIGH GRADE MUTTON _Eas¬ 
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and Oat Feed; safe, too. Mut¬ 
ton made from Victor Corn and 
Oat Feed is tender and juicy; 
no stringy meat if you use this 
feed. Sheep prosper and show 
good profits. Victor Corn and 
Oat Feed is perfectly adapted to 
successful sheep raising and you 
make no mistake in buying it. 
If your dealer has none in stock 
send us his name and we will 
see that he has it. 
Sold only in Sealed and 
Branded Sacks. 
Feeding for Flesh, an invaluable 
book on Horse, Cattle, Hog and Sheep 
Feeding. Sent postpaid on request. 
Our Feed Expert will freely answer 
all questions on live stock feeding. 
Address, Science Department, 
The American Cereal Co. 
1339 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III. 
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trade demands, is colored with 
Thatcher's Orange Butter Color — 
the color that does not contain 
any poison. Send for a sample. 
THATCHER MF8. CO., Potsdam, H.Y. 
A FEED COOKER 
Is a money saver on every farm. It 
Increases the grain you have by 
making It more palatable and dl 
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Just the tiling for boiling down elder, 
until you get our circulars andpriees. 
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etc. 
Y S5.QO 
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lust the tiling for cooking feed for ato<*k, 
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for Moulding hog A* Burns wood only. 
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We make larger cookers and will quote 
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J&i does it. 
More Sap ^ 
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Genuine has signature 
other, and thero is a 
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explained In our Free 
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No. 2, lgth. 2% ins. ^ No. 1, *2.16; 
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WHAT IS THE BEST SEPARATOR? 
THE IMPROVED UNITED STATES. 
Why—Because it has the Triple Current Bowl 
which recovers all the cream in the milk. 
Skims Perfectly Clean ; Is Very Easy to Operate. 
Williamsburg, Iowa, July 28 , 1898 . 
The Improved U. S. Separator is giving splendid satisfaction. 
It skims perfectly clean and is very easy to operate. We would 
not think of handling any milk without the Improved U. S., 
which I consider the best separator on the market. 
J. W. THOMAS, Steward Iowa Co. Poor Farm. 
Write for catalogues and further information to 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., - Bellows Falls, Vt. 
