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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
We have two colleges and a chair in veterinary surgery that will compare 
with any, either American or foreign. When we have the hearty co-operation of 
such hard and earnest workers in the science as Professors Law and Liautard, 
and numerous others who are growing up in the profession, with all the advan¬ 
tages of society, education and proper training, with the quick blood of youth 
coursing through their veins, willing to work and labor for the good cause, why 
should we not feel encouraged when we stop to think that upon the shoulders of 
these very same men will be placed the great responsibility of moulding and 
guiding the future of our veterinary structure in America. We should feel 
doubly pleased to see that our Government has already in national sanitary work 
commenced to feel the want of better veterinary inspection of our meats and 
live stock, to not only place us on an equal footing with our sister countries, but, 
American like, to be at the head. We should aim to be placed at the head of 
all nations as the foremost sanitary protector of food and food products. 
Sanitation in its broad and important meaning should receive careful and 
thoughtful consideration on our part, that public sentiment may be aroused 
and give us our proper place as sanitarians. 
In veterinary jurisprudence let us hope that the time is not far distant when 
our now almost useless and inferior laws may be cast aside and moie broad and 
fair statutes take their place, and remove from our respected profession the very 
unjust criticism that make us the laughing-stock of some of our patrons. The 
rapid and advanced strides that our country has taken during the last four years 
in the breeding of fine and blooded stock, should stimulate us to making our¬ 
selves close students of breeding in all its many conditions. Veterinary educa¬ 
tion in this, we should all agree, and make the effort of our life to reach the 
standard of our schools, and to watch their welfare and prosperity with a zeal¬ 
ous eye, and to lend our aid to widen and improve their standard of education. 
Our veterinary journals, I must admit, are few in number, but we can feel 
proud of what we have got as being edited and conducted and published by a few 
of the most learned, scientific and self-sacrificing men that the veterinary profes¬ 
sion can boast of. And I for one would feel like going without one of my daily 
meals rather than to be deprived of the valuable information and opinions ex¬ 
pressed in an American veterinary journal. 
Gentlemen, in my official capacity as Secretary to your Society during the 
past two years, I have had every opportunity to become acquainted with many 
veterinarians in New York State, if not in person, through correspondence, and 
it gives me great pleasure to state that, although many in number and scattered 
in location, all seem to feel the necessity of banding together for our mutual pro¬ 
tection, and the protection of the suffering public ; I find that in our crude and 
hurried construction of our by-laws there is considerable room for improve¬ 
ment, and would suggest that the same be carefully considered at this meeting 
and revised as the committee may decide. The same may be said of the Code of 
Ethics. I would also suggest that our President, in naming his several com¬ 
mittees, have the members of a committee selected from a location near 
each other, that they may meet oftener without having to travel from home, as 
heretofore committees have been on paper only, as one man was at the eastern 
part of the State and another at the extreme west part, making it almost impos- 
