SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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and better cooperation on the part of practitioners. They form 
the chief and most reliable source of information to the State 
Veterinarian and Live Stock Sanitary Board, and are its trusted 
agents in carrying on the work. We should be well informed. 
I find it to be an actual fact that we have practitioners who do 
not know of our State provisions for suppressing outbreaks of 
contagious diseases, and the investigation of causes. We should 
be in close touch and sympathy with the authorities in their 
efforts to protect the stockman’s interests, and the public safety. 
Our veterinary colleges are furnishing a constantly increasing 
need in the form of qualified veterinarians to act upon Boards of 
Health,^ and as inspectors of live stock and their products, and 
as public educators and authorities upon which the people can 
rely. A great work is yet before us, until we have'the State 
Live Stock Sanitary Board so well aided throughout the entire 
State as to enable it to completely fulfil its mission. In our 
opinion it could profitably take cognizance of the most common 
contagious and infectious diseases, such as strangles and influ¬ 
enza in horses. 
These diseases inflict an unnecessary amount of loss and 
inconvenience due to the ignorant and careless manner in 
which diseased horses are allowed to mingle with sound 
ones, and the neglect of disinfection. These diseases are fre¬ 
quent and widely distributed in our part of the country. For 
instance, a drove of horses are shipped from one distant point to 
be sold at public sale. The cars they are brought upon, and the 
yards and stables they pass through are ofttimes hot-beds of in¬ 
fection and when sold they are ready to develop the disease. 
They are spread broadcast and each stable in which they go be¬ 
comes another centre of infection. It need not, nor should not 
be, if proper supervision and restrictions were placed upon the 
horse market. The world is starting upon an era of warfare 
upon disease germs in animal and vegetable life, and upon in¬ 
jurious insects and noxious weeds, that will some day make this 
a better sphere to live upon. In this grand battle the veteri¬ 
narian will stand among the foremost. 
The literary programme was now opened with a talk by 
Dr. Geo. B. Jobson on “ Bacteria.” Dr. J. B. Irons presented 
the subject of “ Anthrax.” Dr. Willis B. McCray, “ Parturient 
Apoplexy.” Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, “ Why We Come to 
Franklin.” Dr. C. C. McLean, “ Dairy and Milk Inspection.” 
Dr. Otto G. Noack, “ Report of Surgical Cases, as Tenotomy, 
and Resection of Necrotic Parts of Soft Tissue of Froe caused 
