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pointment of the incumbents to various positions than fitness. 
Hence insolvent cigar manufacturers and sausage-makers 
may be appointed as inspectors of slaughter-houses and pro¬ 
visions, instead of men who by their education and training 
have the requisite knowledge of the subject. 
Dairy inspection is another subject that has received but 
little attention as yet. There are laws providing that unless 
milk contains thirteen per cent, of total solids, the dealer shall 
be liable to a fine; yet the sanitary surroundings of the cows 
and their condition of health receive no consideration what¬ 
ever. Tuberculosis is not infrequent in cattle, and it is kno wn 
that milk from tuberculous cows may produce consumption 
in the human being. Here is then another opportunity for 
the veterinarian to demonstrate his usefulness. 
Though the ranks of veterinarian practitioners are rapidly 
filling, the profession will doubtless long afford ah honorable 
maintenance to honorable men who engage in it, and occa. 
sionally one will be found who, by his special adaptability to 
the work, or because of particularly favorable surroundings, 
will be able to retire early with a competency. 
The income of a veterinarian will depend much on his 
ability and environment. A young practitioner whose gross 
receipts are twelve hundred dollars for his first year’s work 
can be considered as fortunate. If he is successful in the 
treatment of his cases and is liked by his clients, he ought to 
do better every year. Yet he will enjoy a larger income than 
most of his fellows when his annual earnings reach even as 
much as thirty-five hundred or four thousand dollars. 
There are veterinarians who make two or three times this 
amount, but they form a small minority of the profession, and 
most of them began their labors years ago, when men edu¬ 
cated in this branch of medicine were less numerous than at 
present. 
Those holding public positions as professors, government 
or state officials receive salaries ranging from fifteen hundred 
to thirty-five hundred dollars, but many of them require, in 
addition to a practical education, a scientific training. The 
services of such investigators of all kinds in the New World 
are much less in demand than in the Old. 
