VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 
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If we have a man in this country who possesses both these 
equirements to a high degree he has so far concealed his 
fentity. Such a combination is in fact practically impossible, 
'he literature supplied specially for the veterinarian is as a 
ule very meager. In my own case, although the post of 
eterinarian has existed for four or five years, he is not sup- 
lied with any current literature relating to his work, and 
nly during the past few weeks the first two standard books 
slating to his work were procured. Under such unfav- 
rable environments we are not warranted in expecting great 
ssults. 
With the few stations commanding the entire time and en- 
rgy of their veterinarian, we find naturally better equipments 
>r the work ; Nebraska leading, followed by Missouri and 
thers of less note. 
We have given a rough estimate of the number of workers 
1 experiment stations, their equipment and environment, and 
leir cost to the country. Their value must be estimated by 
le work accomplished and recorded. During the past year 
^e have received station bulletins, to which the veterinarians 
ave contributed three popular articles on glanders, and one 
n diseases of sheep, none of which made any pretence to 
eing scientific, nor to have been founded on any original 
fork or study of the authors, but merely short popular de- 
:riptions for farmers ; also one treatise on flukes, one on Texas 
wer, one on Texas fever and hog cholera, one on ringworm 
1 cattle and one on enzootic cerebritis in horses, all of which 
r ere brief and contained nothing in advance of the general 
wel of veterinary science, and nothing likely to be preserved 
i future years as treasures of science, although it must be 
dmitted in passing that some of them possessed temporary 
alue to farmers and stockmen, and even in some cases to 
eterinarians. 
One more recent contribution to our literature from station 
eterinarians must be passed in review, being an article entitled 
A Double Monstrosity of a Calf, Traceable to an Injury of its 
lother,” occurring in a bulletin of the Minnesota station, in 
fhich the veterinarian describes a calf born at full term and 
