REPORT OF VETERINARIAN. 



C. A. Gary. 



Dr. C. C. Thach, 



President Alal)ama Polytechnic Institute, 

 Auburn, Alabama. 

 Sir: 



I respectfully submit a synopsis of the work of the 

 Veterinary Department for 1910; 



The influences of cotton seed meal on the health of the 

 various organs of the body of pigs and horses, when fed 

 cotton seed meal alone or in combination with other feeds, 

 have been studied. This work requires time and repeated 

 tests. It also requires numerous and tedious blood examina- 

 tions, careful preparation of tissues for sections so that the 

 pathological changes may be studied and recorded. While 

 the toxic ingredient of cotton seed meal is said to have 

 been determined, in so far as possible we aim to record all 

 symptoms and microscopical changes in organs. 



A study of the infections of cow's udders and the patho- 

 logical changes is being continued. This requires numer- 

 ous bacteriological analyses, and numerous sections and 

 examinations of parts of a number of udders which are 

 variously and differently diseased. The ways of infection, 

 the influence of the morbid changes on milk secretion are 

 considered. We had some opportunities to get records on 

 the effects of peanuts, as a single ration, on hogs and pigs. 

 This line of work is demanding attention on account of 

 extensive use of the peanut as a hog feed and the rather 

 common occurrence of a disease associated with, or caused 

 by, the peanut. Observations on Osteo-porosis are made 

 as cases are presented and chief aim is to find the cause of 

 this obscure disease. 



The sanitary question on farms, especially in dairies and 

 dairy barns are studied. The infection of pens, soils, etc., by 

 the careless handling of carcasses, manures and waste farm 

 products is noted and studied. A study of the prevalence 

 of animal parasites in domestic animals is made, and of 

 necessity the work is slow because of lack of funds and 

 workers w'ho are able to push it. 



The Farmers' Institutes during 1910 were not as numer- 



