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Alumni. Up to this time sometliing over fifty per cent of our 

 graduates have located as general practitioners in Michigan; it is, 

 hoAvever, ditlticult at this writing to estimate tlie exact number so engaged 

 OAving to the unusual restless conditions throughout this country and 

 the fact that a very great proportion of our alumni have volunteered 

 for enlistment in the Veterinary Officers' Reserve Corps of the United 

 States Army. Accepting an appointment from the War Department 

 during the early spring as examiner of applicants for the Reserve Corps, 

 I have had an excellent opportunity to again meet many of our graduates 

 and also obtain a most favorable impression of their state of prepara- 

 tion and efficiency upon veterinary subjects. Unquestionably this army 

 veterinary work will serve to link in closer bond the practitioner and 

 college. 



Anti-Hog Cholera Serum-. Shortly following the commencement of the 

 fall term of 1916 the manufacture of anti-hog cholera serum was dis- 

 continued and distribution limited to the product on hand. Details of 

 the closing up of this work will be included in the report from the 

 Department of Animal Pathology and we have already alluded to the 

 transfer of Mr. Robbins to the Department of Veterinary Anatomy. 



Extension and Rcscarcli Work. Realizing the high annual death toll 

 among Michigan livestock and appreciating that much of the loss is 

 preventable through adequate establishment of cooperative and educa- 

 tional contact between sanitaiy experts and agriculturists, we have an- 

 nually and now continue to urge provision for giving members of the 

 "S'eterinary Division a closer touch with these problems through per- 

 mission to inaugurate investigation work upon a more extended scale 

 tlian at present. We have recently offered the facilities of the Depart- 

 ments of Medicine and of Animal Pathology to the College Extension 

 Division, with a view, if possible, of working out control methods against 

 animal parasitism and infectious abortion among cattle; these and other 

 fields of animal disease problems offer abundant opportunity and we 

 ought to be at work to the fullest extent the resources of this institution 

 can afford. 



The usual opportunity for extension work through furnishing iu- 

 fonnation by correspondence, examining material sent in by veterinarians, 

 farmers, and the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, attending the 

 Grange meetings, institutes, taking part in the program of farmers' week 

 schedules, veterinary gatherings, etc., have been a part of our endeavors 

 during the past year and unquestionably offer fields for greater elabora- 

 tion as soon as we can increase our available teaching and working 

 force. 



The American Veterinary Medical Association met in annual con- 

 vention at Detroit during the last week of August, 1916, and as appeared 

 fitting for such an occasion members of the Veterinary Division faculty 

 took a large part in the work of the commjittees created for entertaining 

 visiting delegates. 



Reconhmendation. In closing I particularly desire to emphasize our 

 urgent need of a building to accommodate the Departments of Veterinary 

 Anatomy and Animal Pathology. The allied nature of these phases of 

 work make it possible to arrange a dual purpose building providing 

 laboratory facilities for microscopic work in histology, embrj^ology and 

 morbid anatomy, q^uarters foi* dissection for both agricultural and vet- 



