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which causes the disease known as trichinosis. As a secondary 
precaution, no pork should be eaten unless it has been thoroughly 
cooked throughout, so as to kill any parasites which may exist 
in it. The pernicious and most unsanitary practice of feeding 
swine with garbage should be prohibited, as it induces disease 
in that animal whose carcass constitutes a large portion of our 
food resources. 
Cold storage, cooking or salting will destroy the parasites of 
certain diseases. In other cases the meat should be u tanked ” 
and converted into fertilizer. In each city and town the 
slaughtering should all be done at one abattoir, and that abat¬ 
toir should be constructed upon sanitary principles. There 
should be a competent veterinary inspector appointed as direc¬ 
tor in every slaughter-house, with assistants if necessary. 
Veterinary inspection of meat is now being efficiently 
carried out on a large scale for inter-state and foreign trade 
by the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Meat inspection 
should be carried out along the same lines by every city and 
town in New Jersey. The State, and every city and township 
board of health, should have at least one veterinarian officially 
connected with it. Veterinarians should be appointed on boards 
of health as well as physicians and others, for no small part of 
preventive medicine and sanitary science belong essentially to 
the veterinary profession. 
I take a deep interest in this association, because it brings 
together members of several professions interested in a common 
cause. 
The Nebraska State Veterinary Association holds its 
next meeting at Lincoln, Neb., January 23d. 
A Very Cheerfue Sight to Brooklyn veterinarians is the 
transformation of a very large storeroom on Bedford Avenue 
from a “ busted ” automobile wareroom to a successful harness 
and horse goods bazaar. 
The class of 1903 of the N. Y.-A. V. C., have adopted a 
new class pin, having a horse’s skeleton head, surmounted by 
two crossed femurs, upon the red cross of medicine, and with the 
University purple as a background. 
