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CORRESPONDENCE, 
in regard to my associates, or so much as gave assent to them 
by my silence, I should consider it my duty to resign at once. 
Those of us who have long worked for the advancement of 
the veterinary profession in this country, and have watched its 
growth and development for a quarter of a century, know how 
much has been done by the two-year schools and the two-year 
men. And speaking for myself, while I shall encourage and 
assist all honest and legitimate efforts to improve the course of 
instruction, leshall not encourage the idea that any particular 
institutions have a right to monopolize the veterinary education 
of the United States. Further than this, I do not believe that 
either the stock owners or the veterinarians will be benefited by 
an attempt to force an arbitrary extension of the course of in¬ 
struction before the country is ready for it. We still have large 
stock raising districts where the veterinarian is unknown, and 
where it is asserted he could not make a livelihood. But this 
was said a few years ago of sections where veterinarians are 
now doing well. Pioneers entered the field, educated the 
people to the value of veterinary assistance and developed new 
fields for the profession. 
If the fields which now remain unoccupied have not been 
found profitable for the man who has given only two years’ time 
and the fees of two courses of lectures for his professional edu¬ 
cation, will they be profitable for the graduate whose course has 
cost him fifty per cent, more than this in both time and money ? 
There are official positions and fields for practice in cities 
and in the richer stock raising districts which the three-year man 
can occupy with profit, but there are many others in which he 
would not get a dividend upon the expense of his education. 
Is it not reasonable to suppose that, during this transition 
period, there may be a mission far both the two-year and the 
three-year schools ? 
We have most excellent men in the profession who have 
graduated from two-year schools, and at a time when the 
requirements at these institutions were much less rigid than 
they should have been. Why this sudden denunciation of two- 
