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entertaining serious doubts as to the final success of any other 
method. 
But, while we agree with and commend the law-makers, we 
feel that we may improve this part of the law by asking that the 
fines collected become the property of the Board for its use in 
prosecutions. Just at this time we would not advocate tamper¬ 
ing with these laws but to seek their enforcement, except efforts 
as just stated, for the purpose of obtaining further financial help 
to promote the work of the Board. Further than this, and on 
the same lines, we would advocate making a powerful appeal in 
a proper manner and at the proper time, to the legislature of 
Pennsylvania for an annual appropriation of say five thousand 
dollars to defray the necessary expenses of the Board. It is 
quite certain that we would receive some substantial assistance, 
even though not the amount asked for. The appointment of an 
intelligent committee, including the State Veterinarian and others 
in position of influence, they backed by the profession of the 
state, bringing influence to bear upon all the legislators, would 
bring results. 
When rightly considered, it is the right of this profession 
to ask for such necessary aid from the state, and we should not 
be timid, having in view the public good. We are members of 
the same family and children of the great state of Pennsylvania. 
Its law-makers are not our enemies but our friends. We placed 
them there, and we have a right to ask them, and they in turn 
fully appreciate their positions as public servants in this respect; 
moreover, they can readily understand the nature and necessity 
of such a request, and many of them, if not the majority, have 
such interests as ours at heart. Probably one-half of our legis¬ 
lators are from country districts. We have no right to complain 
of what our legislators have done for us because they have done 
so well. As proof, think of all the laws of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board, of a laboratory of substantial aid for a veteri¬ 
nary department in connection with the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, of the milk laws of years ago and the perfection of them 
ever since, of the progress of the question of pure milk in the 
