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such time shall come that our efforts for the best interests of 
our agriculturists shall be better appreciated by our legis¬ 
lators. 
In our association we have demonstrated the strength of 
unity of action and purpose, for- nearly everything that has 
been accomplished in our State in the past nine years, of 
importance to the profession, has been done by the energies of 
this association and its members. In the past our numbers 
have been small, but with our now quite large and increasing 
membership, if we can enthuse that same energy and unity of 
v sentiment—and there is room for more harmony than has been 
displayed—into our large membership, we will indeed be a 
power,^and, judging from what has been accomplished in the 
past, we will soon be on equal terms with the profession in the 
Eastern States, if in fact we do not surpass them in professional 
standing. 
Now, before closing my remarks, I desire to draw your atten¬ 
tion to another matter, one that it seems to me has caused a 
great deal of discredit to be given to the veterinarian, and all 
because we have allowed people to be misinformed. I refer to 
the nature of glanders, as understood by the ordinal y horse 
owner. Much of the matter taught and written upon this sub¬ 
ject, I think, most of you gentlemen will agree with me is incor¬ 
rect—at least misleading. 
Glanders is a loathsome and much-to-be-dreaded contagious, 
disease, not because, as people think, it is very rapidly fatal, and 
because if one animal has it all other animals susceptible must 
likewise contract the disease and shortly die that have been in 
close proximity to said diseased animal, but more properly 
because it shows itself in so many different forms and exists 
many times without outward manifestations, or but so slightly 
as not to cause suspicion of disease, but all the time said animal 
is spreading the disease to other animals of susceptible species. 
Also, because as a rule the beast has to submit to a long, 
lingering disease, from which there is no hope for recovery. 
I inform my patrons in the following manner: Glanders is a 
