158 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Again, il", on the one hand, county agents are of value (o agricultural 

 l»rogress and, on the other, it is conceded that veterinary control work 

 is the very foundation of successful animal husbandry, we are not un- 

 reasonable in urging the engagement of a graduate veterinarian as an 

 agricultural agent to educate the rural communities Avith a view to con- 

 serving the resources now invested in the animal industry of Michigan. 

 The American Veterinary Medical Association convenes in annual 

 meeting in Detroit during the latter days of August; some of us have 

 for years been identified with the organization, all connected with the 

 division are members; it would seem fitting were some substantial ef- 

 fort made by the College toward taking active part in helping to enter- 

 tain the national gathering. 



Kequirements and Eecommendation : The remarks included under 

 this paragraph title, without attempting to overshadow the suggested 

 requirements already included within this report, serve particularly to 

 emphasize our present most urgent need. 



With instruction improving and becoming more efficient; with re- 

 search work advancing in all phases of animal husbandry or agriculture ; 

 with our material equipment accumulating and the student enrollment 

 steadily increasing each year our immediate requirements are strongly 

 in evidence and in view of our pressing demands we urge 3'ou to recom- 

 mend the division to the Board for help as herein outlined. 



The establishment of the division in the winter of 1910, found the 

 building equipment and teaching facilities entirely inadequate for a well 

 rounded veterinary course and we accordingly immediately undertook to 

 develop a projected plan for improving and increasing our teaching. This 

 plan as already submitted to the Board proposed a group of four build- 

 ings designated respectively surgery and clinic, anatomic and patho- 

 logic laboratory, ])harmaceutical and pliysiologic laboratory and lastly 

 a medicine and administrative building, these so located in the form of a 

 square as to embrace a court upon rear of which would face the present 

 surgery and clinic building thus affording an adequate outdoor enclos- 

 ure. The time did not then appear propitious to carry out these plans 

 further than the early erection of our excellent, fireproof Surgery and 

 Clinic Building even though it was even then difficult to determine what 

 solution to make of the problem for housing anatomical work. At pres- 

 ent the microscopic laboratories of anatomy and pathology courses are 

 temporarily housed in the second story of the new building with gross 

 anatomy now moved to the east wing of the old Veterinary Building, but 

 both departments have already so outgrown their present quarters as to 

 greatly endanger efficiency with the increasing enrollment. 



Our recommendation is a building — Anatomy and Pathology Building 

 — for immediate combined use of the aforementioned departments, a 

 building so arranged as to provide microscopic laboratory facilities for 

 microscopic anatomy including histology and embryology and for path- 

 ology, quarters for museum collection and display, for postmortem work, 

 for gross anatomy or dissection, for both veterinary and agricultural 

 students and such other needs as shall serve the departments and where 

 they can be adequately housed to give satisfactory instruction in these 

 important technical branches of the course. I invite inspection of our 

 present quarters during class room periods and further call attention 



