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of feeds and nutrients, and such work may 

 be expected in the future. 



In the thirteen years of the twentieth 

 century the progress of agricultural chem- 

 istry has been such as to satisfy even the 

 pessimist that we are moving forward. 

 Our facilities for scientific investigation 

 have been increased by the Adams Act. 

 Our supervision over foods, drugs and 

 feeds has been enlarged and rendered more 

 effective through the Federal Food and 

 Drugs Act. We have made great progress 

 in the survey and mapping of soils and in 

 our knowledge of their properties and chem- 

 ical composition. The science of animal 

 nutrition has made such advances as to ren- 

 der it necessary to revise almost all books 

 dealing with the subject, and to modify 

 our methods of stating the nutritive values 

 of feeds, and our methods of calculating 

 rations for feeding animals. These have 

 been the four chief lines of advance of 

 agricultural chemistry in recent years. 

 The members of the Association of Official 

 Agricultural Chemists may well take pride 

 in the part they have taken in the progress 

 that has been made. 



G. S. Feaps 



THE NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY COL- 

 LEGE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



This occasion^ is to commemorate the 

 opening of a suitable hospital for large and 

 small animals and halls for the teaching of 

 veterinary medicine. It has greater sig- 

 nificance • than the mere addition of new 

 buildings to our working equipment, for it 

 introduces into the teaching of clinical 

 medicine methods of precision which here- 

 tofore could not be employed. We believe 

 it is desirable that the public should know 

 what the university and the state are doing 



1 Opening of hospital and clinic buildings. New 

 York State Veterinary College at Cornell Univer- 

 sity, November 15, 1913. 



to increase the efBciency of the veterinary 

 profession. 



In the development of veterinary medi- 

 cine in America, Cornell University holds 

 a conspicuous place. It was the first insti- 

 tution of higher learning to place veteri- 

 nary medicine on par with other sciences. 

 When its doors opened in 1868, there was 

 among its professors a veterinarian. A de- 

 partment of veterinary medicine was estab- 

 lished and it continued as such until 1896. 

 During those twenty-eight years, the head 

 of that department, our distinguished and 

 beloved Dr. Law, was not only an adviser 

 in university affairs, but also a leader in 

 the important work of the nation in eradi- 

 cating those diseases of cattle that cost 

 Great Britain and her colonies hundreds 

 of millions of dollars. Had it not been for 

 the broad views of Ezra Cornell and Presi- 

 dent White relative to the teaching of ap- 

 plied sciences in Cornell University, where 

 Daniel E. Salmon, Theobald Smith and 

 Leonard Pearson were trained, the losses 

 on British soil from contagious pleuro- 

 pneumonia, piroplasmoses and foot and 

 mouth disease might easily have been du- 

 plicated in this country. 



At the time the department of veteri- 

 nary science was organized in the univer- 

 sity, it was not thought in this country to 

 be necessary to expend large sums of 

 money for veterinary education. The 

 American people experienced with the re- 

 signation of the fatalist a steadily increas- 

 ing loss from diseases of animals. Because 

 of the enormous live stock industry and 

 export trade in cattle and animal products, 

 this loss was not generally felt. The time 

 was approaching, however, when our meat 

 and dairy products would be required to 

 feed our own people and when the losses 

 sustained from disease would be added to 

 the cost of living. This condition was as 

 inevitable here as it had been in Great Brit- 



