RESOLUTIONS OF N. Y. STATE V. M. SOCIETY. 
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from the west for shipment into the States east and south of 
New York and here tested by tuberculin are habitually separated 
into two lots representing the sound and tuberculous, and that 
the sound are shipped into the New England and other States, 
while the tuberculous are sold into the herds of the State of New 
Yoik, carrying destructive disease into our herds and a most dan¬ 
gerous infection into our meat and dairy products ; therefore, 
be it 
Resolved^ That the New York State Veterinary Medical So¬ 
ciety protests against such misappropriation of public funds ; 
against this false show of protection to our herds and to the 
public health, while both are being sacrificed by the introduc¬ 
tion into our barns and fields of the cattle of other States which 
have been rejected by other markets as tuberculous ; and be it 
further 
Resolved^ That this Society respectfully represents to the 
Legislature of the State of New York, that in order to secure 
the best results in dealing with contagious diseases of the lower 
animals the work should be entrusted not to physicians who 
know the diseases of man only, but to accomplished graduates 
of the best veterinary schools who have made a special study of 
the many varied maladies of farm animals and of the sanitary 
measures necessary to their restriction and extinction. The fact 
that the Legislature has placed so high a value upon veterinary 
medical practice as to enact a stringent law for its regulation 
and that a series of acts have been passed with the view of foster¬ 
ing veterinary education and elevating its standard, logically 
demands that the owners of live stock in New York should re¬ 
ceive the benefit of the sanitary science which is the avowed ob¬ 
ject of such improvement and control. 
Whereas, It appears that the Commissioner of Agriculture of 
the State of New York, has under successive administrations 
employed as chief inspector of contagious diseases, a person 
who is not a graduate of a veterinary or medical school, and who 
has never attended such a school, thus violating the spirit, if 
not'the letter of the law, discrediting scientific veterinary medi¬ 
cine, and depriving the stock-owners of the State of the sound 
sanitary administration which is their right by law ; be it 
Resolved^ That the New York State Veterinary Medical So¬ 
ciety at their meeting in New York, September 15th, 1898, 
protests emphatically against this misappropriation of public 
funds, and the withholding from the service of the owner of 
live stock of that knowledge and skill in veterinary sanitary 
