The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-05
$50 Delegates From Over State
Gather in Topeka.
DR.. DORSET on GOOD PROeRlM
Federal Authority Who Invent
ed Hog Cholera. Serum Here.
Would Have Veterinarian rs
Live Stock Commissioner.

If anyone attends the convention Of
the Kansas Veterinary Medical ASSOC
citation, now being held in the council
chamber of the city hall. expecting to
meet lot Of bewhiskered old "hoss
DOCTORS" he will be disappointed. The
association numbers approximately
ESQ persons and q more highly edu-
Gated, progressive, up-to-date and well
dressed body of men rarely gathers.
As Kansas is primarily an agricultural
state, which means q live stock state,
the subjects they are discussing are
of vital importance.
Speakers of authority are here to
tell what they know. Kansas farm
ers lose more money from hog cholera
every year than from all other live
stock losses combined and multiplied
several fold. So the association has
brought the highest authority in the
United States to tell the doctors of the
state what he knows about cholera
serum. DR.. NJ. Dorset, of Washington,
d. c.. connected with the federal bu-
eau of animal husbandry, and discov-
erer Of hog cholera serum. is here to
tell what the government has done
and. ID doing. He il the man who in
vented hog cholera serum and he has
been studying its use ever since. He
will talk at the session tomorrow even-
ing. This meeting will be open to- the
puUllC anu pEcSCut6 AL AOVauta8C ~
live stock men of this vicinity which
they will do well to make use Of,
At the same session with DR.. Dor
set, DIR. O.. E. StrOdtman, a federal
government expert, who has been con-
Quoting a campaign in Marshall coun-
ty to eradicate hog cholera. will tell
of his work. The work done by the
government in Marshall county is ex-
detrimental. This county was selected
because Of its reputation as q hog
cholera center.
Exhibits at City Hall.
The hall leading to the council
chamber in the city building Just now
might be taken for the operating room
of a European army hospital. There
are instruments enough there to care
for an army Of wounded. But these
but for domestic animals. The firms
having exhibits there are Sharple
& Smith. Chicago; American veteri-
nary Supply company, Kansas City;
Jensen-Salisbury Supply company.
Kansas City; Cleveland company,
Omaha; Abbott Alkaloidal company,
Chicago; and Hettinger Brothers.
kansas City. ~ t ,-.,
The session this morning was pure
ly of business nature. This after
noon r L. Cofran. mayor. delivered
the address of welcome. which was
to by DIR. w. J. Guilford.
Following this, DR.. F. M. Baldwin de-
Mvered his annual address as presi-
dent. "Quacks and Quackery'' was
the subject dealt with by DR.. r.. A.
Branson. Taylor Riddle, state live
stock sanitary commissioner. spoke on
the relations of the state live stock
commission to the veterinarians, and
DR.. C. W. McCampbell discussed the
state stallion law.
Sentiment seems general among
the delegates that the state law Great
ing a state live stock commissioner
should be amended go that only a
graduate veterinarian could hold the
position.
IF this were the case, we believe
the live stock interests of the state
would be better attended to and the
purpose for which the commission
was created more fully carried OUT
said DIR. Baldwin, president of the
association. But we doctors are not
politicians and heretofore politicians
and not veterinarians have been APP
pointed"