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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
In explanation of the first por^on of his address, Dr. 
Thomas stated that a man owning a hog-rendering establish¬ 
ment in his county was in the habit of going to farms at night 
where hogs, dead from cholera, had been buried, and would 
dig them up and haul them over the public highways to his 
rendering establishment. That it was probable that the 
disease was propagated in this manner. This class of men 
studied the weaknesses of the law and made use of every sub¬ 
terfuge when prosecutions were instituted against them. The 
safe thing to do was to burn every cholera hog. 
Prof. Stalker said it was advisable to resort to the burning 
process, for the large profits in the rendering business induced 
men to violate the law. In his opinion the hog buyers who 
went from farm to farm, walking through many hog yards 
the same day, and rousing up the lazy or ill ones to see 
whether they were all right, became, in this way, active trans¬ 
porters of the germs of hog-cholera from one pen to another. 
Dr. Hutchinson: 1 am very much interested in the Presi¬ 
dent’s address, and as it voices the sentiments of the veteri¬ 
nary profession, I must congratulate you on the fact that you, 
as a profession, are so deeply interested in the coming phase 
of medical science, the prevention of disease. The medical 
profession must depend on you to do a large share of this 
work. 
Dr. G. A. Johnson: 1 would like to say a word about the 
idea of a uniform tariff or fee bill; I am heartily in sympathy 
with that idea; we ought to have some standard to guide us. 
Graduates come into our State from Canada and elsewhere, 
and, not realizing the difference in countries and conditions, 
perform veterinary services at ruinously low rates, and estab¬ 
lish prices in their communities far too low for legitimate pro¬ 
fessional fees, and 1 move that this Association proceed to 
draught a fee bill. Seconded by Dr. Brown. 
Dr. Johnson then presented a fee bill which he had pre¬ 
pared, which was read by the Secretary. A live discussion 
followed by Drs. Morse, Brown, Gibson, G. A. Johnson, 
Thomas, Norton, Edwards, Stewart and Platt. 
Moved by Dr. Inger to amend the motion so that it may 
be referred to a committee ; seconded and lost. 
