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of five pounds of hay, it is worth just as much as five pounds 

 of hay. 



Question. Suppose the same amount of sawdust would 

 fill the bill, would it be worth as much? 



Mr. Douglas. Yes, sir. If it filled the bill it would be 

 worth just as much. 



Mr. A. A. Fitch. With regard to straw in pomace, in 

 my journeys over the State in connection with the milk ques- 

 tion, I have had occasion to examine a good many silos in that 

 particular, and I have found several persons who are using 

 the common pomace with the straw in it, and I have tried it 

 myself this fall with success. It makes no difference. The 

 ensilage is good. 



Adjourned to two o'clock p. m. 



Afternoon Session. 

 The afternoon session was called to order at two o'clock 

 by Mr. Brooks and Dr. Austin Peters, M. R. C. V. S., 

 read the following paper : — 



THE VALUE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE TO THE STATE. 



BY AUSTIN PKTEBS, V. S. , OF BOSTON. 



Mr. Chairman^ Ladies and Gentlemen, — I have been 

 requested to address you at this meeting of the State Board 

 of Agriculture upon " The Value of Veterinary Science to 

 the State." By the term State is meant the [)eople of the 

 State, for the State would be nothing without its people, 

 and the value of a profession or of a man to the State 

 means the usefulness of that profession or man to the peo- 

 ple in the community. 



It cannot be denied that it is a benefit to a locality to have 

 a man residing therein who is conversant with the nature 

 and treatment of the diseases of the domesticated animals, 

 and able to render surgical interference in case of injury, or 

 when, for any other reason, his services are required. This is 

 the popular idea among many people, that a veterinary sur- 

 geon is simply a horse and cow doctor, useful to be called on 



