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W. H. HOSKINS. 
opinion of your own constituents, as well as in the eyes of the 
people at large. 
Since our last meeting the New Jersey State Veterinary 
Association has been organized and is equipping itself for much 
useful work in the future. The association formed in Massachu¬ 
setts is destined to become a powerful one in that State and will 
no doubt, in the high rank of education she claims in all her pro¬ 
fessions and occupations, soon show forth on her statutes a good 
law governing the practice of the profession there. She has able 
workers in her ranks and I trust they will individually feel the 
responsibility resting on them, toward the profession at large. 
An association has been found in Missouri, but is yet in a state 
of uncertainty, that I am unable to speak intelligently of its 
scope of work and promised usefulness. 
As a result of this lack of support and mark of disappro¬ 
bation placed on these associations by qualified practitioners, we 
are confronted to-day with two associations claming a national 
character, and what may be the ultimate result of this can be 
hardly foreseen. Expressing my own personal opinion, I am 
willing to believe that the one recently formed may be dissolved, 
by a liberal and earnest movement on the part of this Association. 
I am ready to-day, if given the required power, I think, to bring 
to this association the support of our organization in Penn¬ 
sylvania, and wisely directed efforts I think will be able to win 
the others ; by accomplishing this you will withdraw the base 
upon which the second Association rests, and collapse must be 
the inevitable result of its career. In this respect, I suggest, fellow 
members, the appointing of a committee to confer with these Asso¬ 
ciations or the representative members of the same, toward a 
consolidation by representatives with this Association. 
During the past year or more, many State Agricultural 
Societies and Granges have been securing veterinary practitioners 
to deliver plain talks and lectures on emergencies and slight 
cases, that the surgeon may be assisted and saved many useless 
points in slightly indisposed cases. This form of work is to be 
encouraged, for it will bring a greater amount of work to the 
surgeon, as well as stimulate dormant interests among those who 
