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EDITORIAL. 
threatens to depopulate this industry in any section of the State, 
the stockman must fight his battle single-handed, with the aid 
of whatever private practitioner he can find, whether he be a 
man with experience in this line, or a novice. 
Numerous spasmodic and individual efforts have been made 
to secure legislation looking to the creation of the office of 
State Veterinarian, or the establishment of a State bureau of 
animal industry, but none have had behind them a united effort 
of the rank and file of the profession, nor have they been pur¬ 
sued with that earnestness and unanimity which command 
attention and enforce acquiescence. 
The New York State Veterinary Medical Society at its late 
meeting in Ithaca took the initiative in a renewed effort to ac¬ 
complish this tardy obligation to the live-stock interests of the 
State by passing a resolution embodying the sense of the society 
that the office of State Veterinarian was urgently needed, and it 
instructed its secretary to take certain steps toward bringing 
the matter to the attention of the legislature. We fear, how¬ 
ever, that the effort will be without much success, as it simply 
throws the whole work upon the shoulders of one man, who 
can do but little at best in this direction through his unaided 
though earnest exertions. He will undoubtedly carry out to 
the letter the instructions of the resolution, but there the matter 
will end. 
There has just been elected to the lower house of the Legis¬ 
lature from the city of, Brooklyn a veterinarian who has had 
long experience in the line of seeking and securing legislation 
favorable to the veterinary profession. He is, in fact, the father 
of the first law ever enacted in the State of New York recogniz¬ 
ing such a profession, and, we believe, the first law of the kind 
ever passed in America. Dr. William H. Pendry, a graduate 
of the American Veterinary College in the early eighties, is the 
man who accomplished so much for us at a time when it was 
sorely needed, and we believe he is the Moses who can lead the 
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veterinary hosts to success now through his greater opportuni¬ 
ties. A few years ago he introduced such a bill, but he sought 
