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W. H. HOSKINS. 
graduates of recognized colleges only without examination, they 
presenting their diplomas or being duly qualified for by another 
member. All others are only permitted to come before the 
Board of Censors, often having been in practice for ten conse¬ 
cutive years ; where a liberal examination is given, and it has 
been my experience as Chairman that the most exacting members 
of the Board are the minority, or self-made men. After a year’s 
labor you may find some objectionable members, and these may 
be removed from your association in one of many ways ; either 
by expulsion, a petition for resignation, or the discussion and 
adoption of a code of ethics, and it will go to show the 
earnestness of self-made men, when I note here that at our last 
meeting the resignation of one of our members was received as 
a result of a petition sent him, but when brought before the 
meeting, one of our self-made men moved to lay the same on the 
table and to my surprise, only two members stood up with me to 
receive his resignation. Following this a motion emanating from 
the same source moved to expel the member, and a vote being 
called for, every member in the meeting rose. 
The work of these associations is a vast one. The first is to 
complete your organization all over your State, following this by 
cnltivating a better fraternal feeling, and remember, fellow mem¬ 
bers, what I have to say, that you will find among your self-made 
members many very able practitioners, men who are honored and 
respected in their homes and fields of labor ; men who by years 
of hard knocks, associated with good careful judgment, or who 
absorbed the best opportunities then offered, when they entered 
practice, are more successful practitioners than college bred 
laborers. Among them you will find men whose whole lives 
-have been spent by the fireside or bedside of their patients in 
earnest thought and study over their labors. These men are an 
honor and a credit to the profession, and deserve much commen¬ 
dation, for the methods of empiricism so popular they have 
utterly scorned, without the safeguards and support as well as 
guidance of an association. And as practical results are what 
are exacted from us as practitioners, in this line you will find 
many of these superior to us, who have garnered our education 
from veterinary schools and colleges. 
