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mg saw or castrating knife, and the compensation for services, 
along with the number of years they have been in practice, 
which will invariably be twenty-five or thirty years, and not 
less than twenty years, as claimed by them. These men seem 
to be doing considerable driving over the country, even in the 
winter season, working with an outfit including library, not 
exceeding in value ten dollars, a tin medicine case containing 
probably three or four remedies, a drenching bottle and a jack 
knife; library consisting of two or three volumes, an ancient 
issue of the old fashioned Horse Farrier , embracing every 
subject pertaining to veterinary science, boiled down to about 
four hundred pages, handed down probably from the last two 
or three generations. 
Now as to their charges. One of these “butchers” will 
drive three or four miles into the country and stay up with a 
sick horse all night for a dollar and a half or two dollars, then 
run a live stock insurance business on a small scale on the out¬ 
side, by taking the case “no cure, no pay,” which to several 
of the less educated class means considerable. 
Is there any wonder that we, claiming to be respectable, 
and wanting to make an honest living practicing veterinary 
medicine, want legislation on this subject? Could we support 
a family or pay our board bill (provided we are single), at 
such proceedings ? Could we clothe ourselves in a manner 
becoming to the profession at such business ?—men that the 
operations, although they may seem trivial to us, such as hy¬ 
podermic injections, paraceitises thoracis, relieving the blad¬ 
der by means of the catheter, taking temperature, etc., are 
entirely foreign to them, and which I honestly believe, if nine- 
tenths of these so-called veterinarians were asked what the 
normal temperature of a horse was, he would be entirely 
ignorant of it. 
These men rely upon drugs entirely, using their three or 
four remedies as a specific for every disease animal flesh is 
heir to, administering them in nine cases out of ten when thev 
are contraindicated. It is a shame that the poor dumb brute 
is confined to such surroundings. Is it any wonder legislation 
is asked for ? It is not the design on my part to exaggerate 
