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oy this really heroic action was at once stamped out. The 
noral, by the way, which this incident, so tragic and so hon- 
>rable to our President, points out is the exceeding great 
need of subjecting, as Dr. Shakespeare suggests, all dairy 
cattle to this test for tuberculosis. There are not wanting 
scientific men who maintain that tuberculosis, with all its 
rightful train, is introduced into the human race directly 
rom the dairy. In the herd of the State College Agricul- 
ural Experiment Station, two cases of tuberculosis were de- 
ected by the use of tuberculin by Dr. Pearson, which could 
>e detected in no other way. 
But to return from our digression, although nothing which 
nost intimately affects the health and lives of those dearest 
o us should be deemed a digression, let me tell you that the 
umber of students in our school this year is ninety-two, an 
icrease of nearly fifty per cent, in the past three years—and 
le epurse of instruction of the most advanced and the most 
horough in this country. 
A majority of the diseases in horses are those affecting the 
oof, and this is almost entirely due to defective shoeing. 
Terefore, practical blacksmithing is taught as part of the 
O 'rse, and instruction in this course should be taken, I think, 
y every man or woman who owns horses. 
At the close of the year ending 31st of August, 1892, 
ighteen hundred and twenty-five animals were treated at 
ne hospital without charge for professional services. We 
lay well hold up our hands in admiration of this most bene- 
scent charity. Those horses were the bread-winners of hon- 
st, industrious, hard working men, the feeders and clothers 
f a little circle of children. Without this beneficent hospital 
lany a furrow would have been carved on the brow of care, 
id many a little mouth gone supperless to bed. As it is, 
jdth this record of our eighteen hundred cases of free-will 
fferings of the highest professional skill, all connected with 
nr veterinary hospital, the surgeons and contributors may 
ream on Christmas eve of the countless homes to which they 
ave given the best of Christmas mornings. 
And now, in conclusion, let me give you one final sign of 
