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of such board, and if I erred in calling for a national board, 
overlooking as I did the difficulties that exist in the creation of 
such a body through the fact of state rights, I am perfectly 
satisfied to see the plan started to-day in each individual state ; 
until the moment has come, when the importance of the veter¬ 
inary profession will have been proved so powerfully as the 
guardian of our national agricultural wealth, the Federal gov¬ 
ernment will then take hold of it in the proper way and make it 
one of its national institutions as it is in the old world. 
The conditions of admission to examination before the State 
board form the most interesting part, however, of the bill to the 
future veterinarian and to the existing places of education. 
Section 176 of the bill reads : 
“The regents shall admit to examination any candidate who is more than twenty- 
one years of age, of good moral character, has the general education required in all 
cases after July /, 1896, preliminary to receiving a degree in veterinary medicine not 
less than three full years, and has received a degree as veterinarian from some regis¬ 
tered veterinary school. ’ ’ 
Those requirements read all that we have been asking for, in 
fact all that which imposes itself upon veterinarians and upon 
veterinary schools of repute that which must necessarily be 
carried out all through the country in a short time. 
It means for us a perfect indorsement of our remarks and of 
our propositions made in Chicago before the members of the 
first veterinary congress of America held last year. It means 
all obligations for every one who shall intend to practice in this 
state , to obtain certificate of qualifications and of registration ; it 
means no more imposition on the part of the easily obtained 
graduation from any school from any part of the world, it means 
death to quackery, it means the elevation of the veterinary pro¬ 
fession on its proper pedestal. 
And yet with all these great benefit obtained, with all these 
obligations which are going to make the veterinary profession 
of New York State what ve are all wishing for; why do we 
have some objections to make ? 
The reason is simple, and though it may appear personal on 
