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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Secretary read a communication from the Missouri Valley 
Veterinary Association, through its Secretary, inviting the 
members of the I. S. V. M. A. to become members of their 
association. The invitation was duly appreciated, but it was 
apparently the sense of the meeting that as a body we had no 
authority to take any action, farther than to leave it with the 
members to do as they might see fit individually. 
A letter was also read from Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chairman of 
the Committee on U. S. Army Legislation for the American 
Veterinary Medical Association, soliciting aid for that cause. 
The members were requested to do what they could personally, 
and a committee appointed to draft suitable resolutions. The 
members of the Committee on Resolutions were : Drs. Niles, 
Whitbcck and Parslow. 
The report of the Committee on Sanitation was called for. 
Dr. Stewart was the only member of the committee present, 
and he had no report to offer. This being a very important sub- 
■ject, it was decided to devote some time to discussion thereon. 
Dr. Miller thinks that veterinarians generally have noi given 
the attention to the subject they should. He thinks they should 
be sufficiently well posted to give intelligent advice to farmers 
and others on such subjects, and a special effort made to edu¬ 
cate the public along the line of general sanitation ; thinks the 
easiest and best way to control contagious disease is by quaran¬ 
tine measures ; thinks “ prevention better than cure.” 
Dr. Johnston thinks this the only means of controlling con¬ 
tagious diseases, and farmers should be so taught. 
Dr. Willis says we need more and better laws on the subject; 
that farmers are not inclined to take sanitary advice, and there 
should be laws to enforce it. 
Dr. Brown thinks the laws we already have should be en¬ 
forced. We have a State law prohibiting any traffic whatever 
in dead hogs, hogs that have died of miy disease, or been killed 
on account of any disease, and yet they are hauled over the 
public highways to rendering establishments. The same State 
law provides that dead hogs shall either be burned, or buried 
three feet below the surface. We go through the country and 
find these dead hogs piled up in the fence corners, or lying in 
the fields where they dropped, decaying and the germs of disease 
being washed down into streams, or carried by dogs, birds, or 
other means over the country, and still we cry for 7nore law and 
talk about controlling hog cholera while this sort of thing 
exists all over the State. 
