206 EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



VETERi:NrARY DEPARTMENT. 



This newly organized department of tlie station lias been 

 in operation since Jnly 1 of the present year. Previous to 

 this the veterinary vv^ork in the station has been attended to 

 by the veterinary dej^artment of the college. 



Each year for the past fifteen years there has been an 

 increasing demand from the stock owners of the State for 

 information concerning veterinary subjects. This demand 

 has come to the station in the form of requests for lectures and 

 publications, and correspondence relative to animal diseases, 

 or to the nature of material sent for examination. The speci- 

 mens that have been received have come from various parts 

 of the State, and have consisted of diseased tissues of the 

 larger animals, or in some instances the cadavers of the smaller 

 farm animals ; and in some cases the products of the ani- 

 mals, such as milk, eggs, etc. This material has been sub- 

 jected to a close examination, oftentimes a microscopical study 

 and bacteriological examination, requiring a large amount of 

 time and labor to complete it. Living animals sent for study 

 and examination have been kept under observation in the 

 hospital, where experiments have been conducted to obtain 

 definite information regarding the nature of the particular 

 affection, as regards cause, effects, contagiousness and other 

 closely related matters. Upon the completion of the work 

 written reports have been sent to those from whom the 

 specimens have come, advising them of the nature, cause, 

 treatment or prevention of the particular affection. 



On several occasions visits have been made to farms in 

 different parts of the State, to investigate outbreaks of disease 

 of a character peculiar either on account of the circumstances 

 imder which the disease made its appearance, the form it 



