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impossible to stand behind a row of cattle for five minutes with 
out seeing one or the other make a more or less ineffectual effort 
to scratch the body. No animal can be comfortable confined as 
they are in New England at the present time. 
Everyone knows that these conditions exist and are detri¬ 
mental to the health of the animal. Then why are they not at¬ 
tended to ? It is because through force of habit we have got 
accustomed to them we take it for granted that they can’t be im¬ 
proved. And, gentlemen, until we pay greater attention to the 
common every day life of the dairy cow, we will never reach the 
true solution of this momentous question. 
“ Their surroundings make them what they are.” 
THE VETERINARIAN’S RELATION TO CLIENT. 
By T. B. Pote, D.V.S., Terre Haute, Ind. 
A paper read before the Indiana Association of Veterinary Graduates. 
In this paper, gentlemen, it will not be my endeavor to pre¬ 
sent to you any startling scientific views, or practical ideas from 
a medical point, but to portray to you in a straightforward way 
another side of our work as veterinarians, viz., that of the vet¬ 
erinarian’s relation to client. The very importance of this rela¬ 
tion is seen when we look among our professional brethren and 
note the rapid progress of some, while others, equally as good, 
and sometimes their superiors, are slow to gain that for which we 
all strive—a practice. Whether this power is some form of 
magnetism or not, it cannot be said, but it is one that can be 
cultivated to a very great extent, and it behooves us as servants 
of the people in this line, to make a close observation of our 
clients and the people we are among, to make a close study of 
them and the impressions we are making upon them. More 
especially is this importance of relationship presented when we 
see that the veterinarian in the minds of many people is not 
classed as a man of learning in his specified line of medicine, a 
man deserving the confidence and respect of an educated man 
as is usually given men of other professions. But instead there 
