1921.1 PUBLIC DOCUMENT — Xo. 31. 55 a 



DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



JAMES B. PAIGE, D.V.S. 



With the rapid multiplication of activities in the department 

 during the past four or five years, the administrative work 

 has increased to the point where it requires the attention of 

 the head of the department for the greater part of the time 

 for which he is responsible to the Experiment Station. The 

 direction of the activities of the members of the staff, the 

 preparation and development of the projects, conferences, 

 keeping of accounts, etc., leave little time for the prosecution 

 of investigational studies. 



Diagnosis. 



For many years it has been the practice in the department 

 to invite the stockmen throughout the State to send in ma- 

 terial from sick or dead animals for examination and diagnosis. 

 This material comes from all species of farm animals. It fre- 

 quently furnishes the best of specimens for study and use in 

 the classrooms and laboratories. It also enables the department 

 to keep in touch with the different diseases of farm animals 

 throughout the State, and to locate the existence of an un- 

 usual disease in a particular locality. A report giving details 

 of post-mortem findings, the cause of the trouble, nature of 

 the disease and means of prevention and treatment is sent to 

 the one sending in the material. By this means we feel that 

 the department is rendering a valuable service to the stock 

 owners of the State, along the line of disease eradication and 

 control. 



