DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 47 



REPOET OF VETERINARY AND MILITARY DEPARTMENTS. 



To the President: 



Sir — I have the honor of making the following report for the Veteri- 

 nary and Military Departments for the year ending June 30, 1900 : 



The work of the Veterinary Department during the past year has been 

 carried on similar to that in previous years. It has been our aim to 

 make the work as practical as possible, and with this in view we inaugu- 

 rated at the beginning of the year a free clinic, with the hopes that the 

 surrounding community might thus furnish some practical illustrations 

 of what was being taught in the class-room. While this phase of the 

 work has not been all that might be wished, yet perhaps it has been 

 as good as could be expected for the first year, inasmuch as the students 

 have in this way been able to see a number of different cases. It is hoped 

 that opportunities along this line ma}' increase. 



In the class-room those seniors electing the subject have received 

 throughout the year instrQction with reference to the anatomy of the 

 domesticated animals, the diseases affecting them, causes, symptoms 

 and treatment of these dis. ases, special attention being paid to the pre- 

 vention and hygienic treairaent. The medicines used received discussion 

 as to their source, actions, uses and dose. In all our work we bear in 

 mind that the students are to become stockmen and farmers rather than 

 professional veterinarians. During the last three weeks of the fall term, 

 two hours a day were spent in the dissecting room, where an old horse 

 destroyed for the purpose was dissected, as was also parts of the other 

 animals where there is a marked difference. 



During the first half of the winter term the sophomore class received 

 thirty lectures; these included a discussion of the most common digestive 

 disorders, the most common lamenesses, along with some of the disor- 

 ders of the other systems, also the accidents and diseases incident to 

 parturition and the diseases of the dairy cow. 



The special short course students received, also during the first half 

 of the winter term, thirty lectures covering about the same ground as 

 that covered by those given to the sophomores; except, owing to the 

 fact that these students, as a rule, had received less preparatory work, 

 the lectures had to be modified to some extent. 



For the past two years the Military Department has been under my 

 charge. In this department I have endeavored to carry on the work 

 in a manner similar to the way it was carried on by the officers in 

 previous years. The cadets have been organized into a battalion of 

 four companies, staff and band. The freshmen have met for drill three 

 days each week during the year; the upper classmen have met the same, 

 except during the last half of the fall and the first half of the winter 

 term, when they are not required to take the work. Cadet officers have 

 had charge of the companies and in most cases they, and also the pri- 

 vates, have shown a good degree of interest in the work. The drill has in- 

 cluded the school of the soldier, the school of the company including 

 platoon drill, the formation of the battalion and the battalion cere- 



