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most modern and improved kind, to furnish the student with 

 a complete and thorough course in this very important 

 branch of learning. 



Veterinary. 



The new buildings now in process of erection will greatly 

 improve and facilitate the work of the professor in this 

 science, and cannot fail to prove of great value to veterina- 

 rians, students and fanners. In the new laboratory and 

 barn, students will become acquainted with sick animals, 

 taught to diagnose disease and prescribe remedies. Here 

 dangerous and contagious diseases can be studied and treated, 

 and problems solved for the benefit of the State. 



It is proposed to have the farmers feel at liberty to send 

 material for examination, and, in case of the appearance of 

 obscure or peculiar disease, here to carry on investigations 

 with reference to them. 



We will not report at length in regard to other branches 

 of learning which are common to all colleges, or of the 

 short winter courses of study. This class-room report shows 

 that the Massachusetts Agricultural College is thoroughly 

 equipped to accomplish the work as stated in the act of Con- 

 gress which provided for its endowment. 



This college is not narrowed in any other line of science, 

 language or classic lore. Its opportunities for furnishing a 

 liberal and thorough education are equal to the other colleges 

 of the State. Its professors are teachers of acknowledged 

 excellence. It is simply broadened by experiment work 

 and practical knowledge in agricultural art. Its four hun- 

 dred acres are for the benefit of the students in agricultural 

 instruction ; yet they are an open book to every student, in 

 whatever course, and must inspire a love of nature that shall 

 redound in blessing in after life. We bring more distinctly 

 before you and the State the agricultural department, be- 

 cause we have watched its progress and noted its results in 

 the year past, and because it is the distinctive line that most 

 directly appeals to the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture. 



The one lack of this college is students. This we must 

 admit. The farmers of the State are not as prosperous as in 



