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to offer agriculture as a part of the curriculum, pri- 

 marily as a brauch of applied science along with 

 other subjects of university instruction. Both 

 schools are privately supported and have farm lands 

 and equipment, but the latter is not affiliated with 

 the College of Forestry at Syracuse. The work in 

 these colleges leads to a recognized degree at the end 

 of the prescribed course of study. Their tuition is 

 that usually charged by such private institutions. 



Two other institutions not strictly agricultural in 

 their work but closely affiliated with it in their prac- 

 tical aspects are the state schools of veterinary medi- 

 cine. The first of these is the New York State 

 Veterinary College at Cornell University established 

 in 1894 and located in Ithaca. It is one of the co- 

 ordinate colleges of that institution on a footing with 

 the College of Agriculture. Its objects are stated in 

 its organic law to be " to conduct investigations into 

 the nature, prevention and cure of all diseases of 

 animals, including such as are communicable to man 

 and such as cause epizootics among live-stock; to in- 

 vestigate the economic questions, which will contrib- 

 ute to the more profitable breeding, rearing and 

 utilization of animals; to produce reliable standard 

 preparations of toxins, antitoxins and other prod- 

 ucts to be used in the diagnosis, prevention and 

 cure of diseases and in the conduct of sanitary work 

 by approved modern methods ; and to give instruction 

 in the normal structure and function of the animal 

 body, in the pathology, prevention and treatment of 



