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J. E. BROWN. 
A PRACTICAL TALK TO PRACTICAL MEN. 
By J. E. Brown, V. S., Oscaeoosa, Iowa. 
A Presidential Address delivered at the Omaha meeting of the Iowa and Nebraska 
Veterinary Medical Association, Nov. 20, 1900. 
Only a little over a year ago quite a number of Iowa and 
Nebraska veterinarians gathered here in this city to bear wit¬ 
ness to and rejoice in the birth of a new Veterinary Medical 
Society. 
This new comer into the veterinary fraternity of the West 
was the outcome of a particular intimacy, friendship, and finally 
a union, in the interests of the veterinarians of these two States. 
Springing from such a parentage we were naturally filled 
with enthusiasm and joyous anticipations concerning the future 
growth and development of the offspring ; to-day we reassemble 
to do her honor by the celebration of her first anniversary, and 
to plan for her farther maturity and future usefulness. 
I am sorry that I am unable at the present time to refer to 
the object now claiming our attention by title, but unfortunately 
she has not yet been christened; the recommendation of a 
suitable name or title being one of the duties of our committee 
on organization, not yet reported. 
There is apparently no limit to the growth and influence 
possible to this organization, nor to its value as a professional 
and social educator to the members of the western veterinary 
profession. 
Here in the very centre of the Great West, the greatest agri¬ 
cultural and stock-raising country that God ever permitted the 
sun to shine upon, is certainly destined to become the garden 
spot of the world for veterinary surgeons. 
Such a country will not only demand but will command the 
very best—the most learned and thoroughly competent and 
fully equipped in every sense—veterinarians that the profession 
affords. 
The . present representatives of the veterinary profession in 
the West are almost universally an energetic, hard working lot 
