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years as the active life of each veterinarian, the yearly require- 

 ment to replenish the natural loss through death would be but 

 three new men once the original demand is supplied, and these 

 three each year would not be required for many years to come. 



Thus, within a short time all the Government positions will 

 be filled and all suitable locations for private practitioners will 

 be occupied and the graduates from the Veterinary College will 

 be without an opportunity to practice their profession. It would 

 seem wise, therefore, to consider the advisability of declining to 

 accept new matriculants and to discontinue the college as soon 

 as the students now enrolled in the college have graduated. 

 The equipment of the college might go to the Bureau of Agri- 

 culture for use in its investigations, and to the College of Agri- 

 culture for elementary instruction in animal diseases. When 

 the need arises for more veterinarians, the Insular Government 

 could send some of the graduates of the Agricultural College to 

 the United States to study veterinary medicine at much less 

 expense than is required to maintain a veterinary college at 

 home. 



Under any plan of organization it seems likely that the Bureau 

 of Agriculture would be obliged to maintain an office in Manila, 

 from which all administrative and standardization work at least 

 could be conducted. Also, to concentrate the technical work 

 of the Bureau and the college at the college would probably 

 make a necessary change in the location of the college to a 

 point more convenient to Manila. In this event, the equipment 

 now belonging to the College at Los Baiios could be used to 

 good advantage by the Bureau of Education for a provincial 

 farm school. I do not pretend to be sufficiently familiar with 

 the details of the situation even to suggest a new location in 

 case it is decided to move the college; but Alabang appears to 

 be an ideal location in all respects, with the important excep- 

 tion that the land at Alabang is not very fertile and is not 

 well adapted to some of the important crops of the Philippines, 

 such as abaca and the coconut palm. 



If Alabang were chosen as the new location of the college, 

 the research work now in progress at Alabang could be trans- 

 ferred to the quarters belonging to the college at Pandacan. 

 Manila, formerly occupied by the Veterinary College and now 

 vacant. This would make the veterinary laboratory at Alabang 

 available as a chemical or botanical laboratory for the college. 

 The building is well built, is well designed for laboratory i)ur- 

 poses, and is practically new. 



The shed and pens for live stock; the wells, pumping plants. 



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