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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
But whether it would not be policy to go a little slow might 
be a question. 
So far as the necessity for publishing or getting before the 
people this class of scientific literature is concerned, I think 
that cannot be too greatly emphasized. I have felt for a long 
time that our efforts as veterinarians were confined too much to 
preparing papers for the veterinarian, for the scientific, edu¬ 
cated men, and not enough for the masses of the common 
people, and it seems to me that it would be a good thing if at 
every meeting we had at least one paper devoted to matters of 
vital interest to the masses of the people prepared in such a way 
that it would be acceptable to the press, especially the local 
press in the sections of country where the meetings are held. 
If we could reach the people through that source it would bene¬ 
fit both the people generally and the veterinary profession. 
Dr. Sloan: I had hoped that the writer of this paper 
. would give us a practical solution of this question of milk in¬ 
spection. I have seen a little of that tried in different places, 
and it is just as well that we note the mistakes of others in 
order not to fall into the same ruts ourselves. For instance, in 
San Francisco they have a milk inspector appointed ; he goes 
about the city collecting samples of milk from the dairymen, 
and from his report the city undertook to enforce the testing of 
the milk from the different dairies. As a consequence the city 
has a number of lawsuits on its hands, the dairymen having com¬ 
bined to oppose the testing ordinance, and at the last accounts I 
heard the matter was still in the courts. In Chicago the veteri¬ 
nary society proposed that the city take up the matter and en¬ 
force the testing of all the dairy cows in the city every three 
months. The mistake they made there was in giving the pub¬ 
lic the idea that it was necessary to test the cows every three 
months. If they had fixed the time at six months or a year 
they might possibly have accomplished their object. The 
frequency of the inspection fostered the opposition of the people 
to the scheme, however, and it was not popular for that reason. 
However, the matter was well stirred up, and in that way some 
good no doubt was accomplished, as it is necessary, it seems to 
me, to agitate these matters in order to educate the people to a 
sense of what is due them. 
I think it would be a good thing to bring the matter before 
the physicians of the city, and an expression from them would 
probably have more weight than a recommendation from asso¬ 
ciations of this kind. If an effort is made to secure municipal 
