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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
the borders of our State, who has secured a diploma from a 
reputable institution of veterinary learning, should join us, and 
help turn our, as yet, nucleus into an organization of influential 
power and strength. A well organized veterinary association in 
Ohio would do more to help our status in the State than any 
other factor. 
u There is a great field of work before us, and the well di¬ 
rected, vigorous efforts of such a mighty union would bring about 
for us the blessings which are here appended : 
u i. A State veterinarian. 
“ 2. A division of our State into districts, and to each district 
the appointment of a district veterinarian. 
u 3. The appointment of veterinarians upon municipal health 
boards. 
‘‘4. To all city police and fire departments a veterinarian in 
care of live stock belonging thereto. 
“ 5. Municipal, central slaughter-houses with veterinary in¬ 
spectors. 
“6. A veterinary dairy inspector. 
“7. A strong union would make our fees more uniform. 
u 8. A veterinarian in charge of a division of our State ag¬ 
ricultural experiment station work. 
u 9. The influence of such a union would be felt in influ¬ 
encing Congress to give to our army veterinarians shoulder 
straps ; the rights, tenure of offlee and the care for their widows 
and orphans which such would entail. 
“None of these suggestions are experimental or utopian. 
They are the conditions to which the public must gradually be¬ 
come educated to appreciate, and are now—to-day—in vogue in 
every other civilized country on the globe but our own. 
u Let our efforts be directed toward bringing them about.” 
Dr. F. E. Anderson read a circular letter from Dr. Salmon 
in reference to the army reorganization law as it affected the 
standing of the veterinarians of the army. Motion was made, 
duly supported and carried, to appoint a committee to draft 
resolutions on the subject in support of the amended bill and 
the Secretary instructed to send each member in Congress from 
Ohio a copy of these resolutions. The committee, Drs. Hillock 
and White, offered the following : 
Whereas, The Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association fully 
realizes that the veterinary corps of the United States army as at pres¬ 
ent constituted cannot be effective ; its improper organization entailing 
upon the country a loss of millions of dollars as well as lowering the 
dignity of a noble profession, and 
