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to which our national farm stock is exposed—all this furnishes 
sufficient grounds for solicitude, and.justifies an urgent call to 
our sanitary and governmental authorities to give their atten¬ 
tion to the matter at the earliest possible day. 
A careful consideration of what has already been said on 
the subject in the various agricultural and scientific papers, 
and the sanitary measures already mutually agreed upon by 
some of the States, furnish sufficient evidence that the day is 
fast approaching when the subject o^ tuberculosis in this 
country will assume a position of recognized national import¬ 
ance, equalling, if not exceeding, that which was occupied 
some years ago by that other scourge of bovines, pleuro-pneu : 
monia, now happily so nearly eradicated by the labors of the 
National Bureau of Animal Industry. 
Veterinary Education. —The propriety of lengthening 
the course of studies at the American Veterinary College has 
been under consideration for some time by the Faculty of that 
institution, who at as early a period as July of last year had 
determined by a unanimous vote to extend the term to three 
years ; and at a recent meeting of the Faculty this decision was 
officially and formally ratified by resolution, the change to be 
inaugurated as soon as the Board of Trustees will have pro¬ 
vided the enlarged accommodations which a step so important 
will render necessary, and an earnest request has been laid 
before the Directors of the College, urging them to make the j 
necessary arrangements at the earliest date possible ; and 
thus the matter rests in the hands of the Directors for final 
disposal. A three years’ course will impose on the Faculty 
an entire change in the curriculum and in the arrangements 
of the lectures, with other details, and after careful consider¬ 
ation it became very evident that with the accommodations 
now possessed by the college it would be impossible to do 
justice to the newly instituted order of things. 
The Faculty of the American Veterinary College, in adopt¬ 
ing the decision of a three years’ course, have undoubtedly 
done well. It is to be regretted, however, that the college 
finds itself seriously crippled in the practical work of putting 
into execution the changes required by the new programme, 
