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the association as above. I might state that a number of vet¬ 
erinarians are making a series of experiments at the present 
time that promise to be of no little value to science and man¬ 
kind. Some of these experiments, I am glad to say, are being 
made in our own State by the Public Health Committee of the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New Jersey. 
The last Legislature enacted a pure food law and put the 
execution of the law under the control of the State Board of 
Health, and I hope that ample provision is made in said law 
for necessary veterinary inspection of all food animals as well 
as animal food products. The qualified veterinarian is the ex¬ 
pert on this subject. This association can do much to enlighten 
the general public on veterinary hygiene and sanitation, and 
I regard the same as an important function of this organiza¬ 
tion. 
All dairies should be regularly inspected by a competent 
veterinarian. The cattle should be examined as to their health 
and the attendants as to their own healthfulness and cleanliness ; 
the stable should have sufficient air space, be well lighted, ven¬ 
tilated and drained ; the quality and kind of food is important, 
and the water supply should be uncontaminated. Milk is often 
tainted, contaminated or infected after it is drawn from the cow. 
The whole system of producing, handling and marketing milk, 
is being revolutionized and great improvement has already been 
made in many dairies by enterprising producers. 
Milk is pure while in the udder of a healthy cow, but the 
moment exposed impurities soon deteriorate it. It should be 
conveyed to the milk house as soon as drawn. Care must be 
taken that the water is not polluted in which the milk cans and 
utensils are washed, for it is in this way that epidemics of typhoid 
are sometimes started. No dairyman should give medicine to 
a cow and allow the milk to be used, especially for children. 
The use of various preparations of mercury, arsenic, zinc, iron ? 
iodine, purgatives and other medicines easily cause fatal results. 
I am of opinion that practitioners of human medicine might in 
certain maladies oft heir patients, especially of children, admin- 
