204 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



REPORT OF THE VETERINARIAN. 



JAS. B, PAIGE, D.V.S. 



During the past year the policies of former years in dealing 

 with the work in this dejiartment have been adhered to. The 

 personnel of the department is the same as last year. With the 

 addition of Dr. G. E. Gage to the working force it has seemed 

 possible to devote more time to investigation problems than in 

 former years, when one man had to attend to the entire work 

 of the department of both college and experiment station. 

 Owing to the demands of a larger number of students in some of 

 the classes, and an increase in the amount of instruction given, 

 it has been found that much of the time of an additional assist- 

 ant has been utilized, not for investigational work as had been 

 expected, but for teaching. 



If the veterinary department of the experiment station is to 

 render such service to the stock owners of the State as they 

 are justly entitled to, it is imperative that a competent patholo- 

 gist, who shall devote practically all his time to investigational 

 problems, be added to the staff of the department at the earliest 

 possible date. 



There are numerous imjwrtant problems that call for imme- 

 diate and thorough study. Some of these studies promise the 

 most flattering results from a practical and economic standpoint 

 in the prevention, cure or eradication of animal diseases. 



During the year there has been the usual amount of corre- 

 spondence with farmers from all parts of the State relative to 

 the existence and treatment of disease of farm animals. This 

 correspondence is fruitful of the best results in many instances. 

 It is often possible, from the information received from a stock 



