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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
The great system of meat inspection, now happily inaugurated, 
should be carried to perfection, so that the consumer can buy a piece of 
meat in any market in the country knowing that it has been inspected 
and that it did not originate from an animal diseased, injured or other¬ 
wise unfit to furnish wholesome food. 
A system of milk inspection should be developed which will guard 
against filth, the germs of tuberculosis, typhoid fever and other com¬ 
municable diseases, and which will make it possible to drink a glass of 
milk in our cities without serious misgivings as to its effect upon our 
health. 
The animal plagues which now ravage the land, tuberculosis, hog 
cholera and swine plague, Texas fever, glanders sheep scab and rabies, 
should be rigidly controlled and eradicated. 
More attention should be given to the treatment of the ordinary 
sporadic diseases, so that the veterinarian shall be prepared at all times 
to give the animal of his client the best treatment which the present 
condition of science will permit. 
To accomplish all of this programme will require years of work, but 
it is your legitimate work. Individuals will come and go, but, as an 
association, the illimitable future is yours. There is no task so great, 
no achievement so distant, that its prospects need discourage you. Let 
us labor then systematically, with full confidence that in time all 
proper hopes shall be realized. 
At the conclusion of the President’s address it was moved 
and carried that the roll-call be dispensed with and that a 
record of the members present be obtained from a book of 
registration kept upon a table at the entrance to the hall. From 
this record the following lists are made: 
Members Prese^it. —Drs. Anderson, Ayer, Baker (A. H.), Bray, 
Brenton, Bown, Beechy, Bell (R. R.), Cary, Christmann, Clement, 
Connaway, Cotton (C. E.), Cotton (T. Bent), Day, Drasky, 
Dnnphy, Edwards, Evans, F'orbes, Gibson, Gould, Griffith, 
Heitzmann, Hinman, Hoskins, Hunter, Jameson, Johnson, Raw, 
Rowe (W. Herbert), Kelly, Knowles, Kolly, Ryford, McBirney, 
Merillat, Miller (J.), Mitchell, Nelson, Nighbert, Norton, Pearson, 
Peters (A.T.), Ramacciotti, Reynolds, Salmon, Shaefer, Sprague, 
Stalker, Stewart, Taylor, Walrod, Ward, Whitbeck, White (T. 
E.), Williams, Young. 
Visitors Present. —W. T. Allen, Philadelphia ; V. C. Barber, 
Rincoln ; A. Berstrom, Minden, Neb.; A. M. Blackwell, Omaha, 
Neb.; A. T. Bowers, Hastings, ISIeb.; John E. Brown, Oskaloosa, 
Iowa; R. D. Brown, Missouri; H. M. Burgess, St. Joseph, Mo.; 
J. W. Byers, Nebraska; J. H; Cock, Ottawa, Kan.; G. R. Con¬ 
rad, Sabetha, Kan.; S. E. Cosford, South Omaha; B. Fisher, 
Creston, Iowa; J. C. Foelker, Allentowm, Penn.; W. R. Fuller¬ 
ton, Dubuque, Iowa ; J. I. Gibson, Denison, Iowa; J. Haggerty, 
Nebraska ; R. R. Hammond, Re Mars, Iowa; S. K. Haslett, 
