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seems to have won the most earnest approval of those present, 
and this approval was in hearty accord with the progressive 
and determined action of the Association the past year in re¬ 
gard to fixing the qualifications, and were the propositions 
submitted by the Chairman adopted by the various veterinary 
colleges of our country there would be little left for the 
Board of Censors to do in examining the applications for 
membership in the national organization. 
The position taken by the Committee on tuberculosis on 
the possibility of plans being adopted to eradicate this disease 
was a surprise even to those who were most sanguine of some 
plan for the mastery of this disease, and it met with the hearty 
approval of the members of the Congress assembled. 
The consideration of the Animal Food Supply of our 
country was a timely paper and exhibited an aggressive posi¬ 
tion by our national Government in protec ing our interests, 
and that all the steps which made manifest the better regula¬ 
tion of the handling of these products were being well con¬ 
sidered by the Goverment and more efficient work was 
promised in the future. 
A complete resume of the important subject of “Swine 
Plague and Hog Cholera,” from the standpoint of an investi¬ 
gation of the work done by those whose results have been 
before the profession and the public for a number of years, 
was one of the most delightful elaborations that the Associa¬ 
tion has ever had the pleasure of listening to. The fitness, 
thoroughness and completeness with which this work has been 
done, and the light shed upon this all important topic will be 
ever and anon remembered and recalled as a fitting climax to 
the many hard fought battles of those who had for many years 
been known to us as investigators on this subject ; and when 
printed and placed before the profession of the country in 
the transactions of the Association will be found to be a 
source of the best knowledge to be had upon this subject up 
to this time. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in 
some severe changes, and for the first time in its history the 
main work of the organization will rest upon young shoulders. 
