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cial, and pay not only the bearers, in years to come, but the com- 

 munity at large. These lectures should be open to the public at a 

 nominal price, and gentlemen could have the privilege of sending 

 their grooms or coachmen, and farmers of attending during the 

 winter months. Thus, and only by carrying out a plan such as this, 

 can we expect to build up our science in America. 



While I am so earnestly opposed to State schools, on account of 

 the seeming impossibility of ever arriving at a uniform system of 

 education for one and all of them, and a uniform grade of examina- 

 tion, yet I do not assert that one school, or institution, is sufficient 

 to cover the entire needs of the country. It can supply the required 

 number of veterinarians, and it can do an immense amount of scien- 

 tific research, but, to fulfill all the requirements which may be made 

 in this direction, another form of institution is necessary. 



These are : research, experiment, stations, one in each State, at 

 the service of and under the control of the State Board of Health, 

 represented by the Chief Veterinary Inspector of the State. The 

 value of such an institution to the people of each State can not well 

 be appreciated in a country where no such thing exists. They 

 should be small, neat stables, with a quarantine stable for infectious 

 diseases ; they also should have a microscopical and chemical labora- 

 tory, and each should have about two acres of land with them. In 

 each State there should be meat inspectors, especially pork inspectors ; 

 part of the duty of the State veterinarian should be to give a course 

 of lectures each year upon these subjects, with the necessary demon- 

 strations. In case this official could not be spared for such a pur- 

 pose, the State should engage a competent man for the purpose from 

 among the veterinarians in the State. 



With such an institution at its command, the Board of Health 

 can constantly make feeding experiments with suspected milk, or 

 with reference to tuberculosis of cows, or any other subject of im- 

 portance to the people of the State. Without such an institution 

 at its command, the hands of such a board are more or less tied. 



The National School should be at the command of the National 

 Board of Health, or National Inspector- General, for similar purposes. 



The Teachers. 



Sooner or later " civil service reform " has got to be introduced 

 into our higher institutions of learning, as well as the Government. 

 With reference to the institution we are considering, it can not and 

 will not ever be successful if its teachers are selected and rewarded 

 as such persons now are in this countrv. With reference to the se- 



