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which the right man can make money. It can some day become 

 a profitable business to many a farmer's boy. It may be said that 

 this is the selfish or money side of the subject. Grant it ; but it 

 is a very necessary aspect of the subject to be considered, for it 

 is no use to urge the claims of any calling unless that calling will 

 supply the means of support. 



Brother farmers, I have said that it lies with you to provide a 

 remedy for the evil suggested, and felt in a greater or less degree 

 by all. You will no doubt ask me, " IIow can we provide a 

 method of cure ?" As a means to this end, I believe there should 

 be a professorship of veterinary surgery established, and made 

 available in this State ; and it would seem that the most suitable 

 place is in connection with the college of agriculture at Orono. 

 Let a reliable, well educated and practical man be secured, whose 

 duty it shall be both to give lectures and hear recitations upon 

 the theory and practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. Let 

 him teach the normal condition of animals in respect to both 

 anatomy and phisiology, as well as the diseased condition to 

 which animals are subject. As said before, we need a practical 

 man, who has seen diseases among animals, and can impart to 

 others both what he has been taught and what he has seen, as 

 well as one thoroughly educated. It is a most interesting and 

 important study to the farmer, or one intending to be a farmer, to 

 learn of the normal structure and pathological condition of the 

 animals of the farm and stable. 



Now let there be a professorship of Veterinary Science estab- 

 lished at the college at Orono, and then let every young man who 

 intends to be a farmer go and study under such professor. Let 

 the farmers go for a week or two in the winter seasons, when the 

 farm work is dull. It would not require a long time to become 

 convinced of their ignorance of correct information on the sub- 

 ject, and they would go back ready to discard the bogus cow 

 doctor, and be earnest to demand a trained and educated doctor 

 for sick animals on the farm. If any young man desires to be- 

 come a veterinary surgeon, the way will thus be opened to him to 

 go and fit himself, at a comparatively trifling expense, for a useful 

 work, and one giving pecuniary profit. There are men in every 

 town who have a taste or an aptitude for such study and work, 

 but hitherto they have quite generally been unable to study and 

 graduate at a Veterinary College, because such an institution is 

 far off and the expense heavy. By providing in our own State 



