VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 
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10 other practicable means would have induced the veterina- 
ian to so locate. 
The colleges could illy afford to employ other than men 
if high moral, social and educational standing, and in turn 
heir relation to the college admitted the veterinarian with- 
»ut further credentials to agreeable social and professional 
ssociations, essential no more to his comfort than to his 
;reatest usefulness in influencing the forces then busily lav- 
ag the primitive foundation of our profession in the United 
hates. 
By his position as professor or lecturer, the veterinarian’s 
ervices were frequently in demand by the leading owners of 
ive-stock, as well as by the local and general authorities in 
ase of notable outbreaks of epizootic diseases, and enjoying 
hrough his position public confidence and esteem, became 
nconsciously a teacher of no small import in a manner not 
xpressly demanded as a part of his direct duties. His ser- 
ices in this manner served, without in any degree inconveni- 
ncing him, to pave the way for the great number of veteri- 
arians so soon to become his neighbors and colleagues. Yet 
is principal influence was to be exerted within college walls 
pon the agricultural students with whom he came in contact 
s instructor. 
Primarily, this influence was apparently intended to be 
onfined to teaching the intending agriculturist those prmci- 
les of anatomy, physiology, hygiene, pathology and thera- 
eutics as would be directly applicable upon the stock farm, 
"his purpose had a more valuable and direct application in 
be early history of the movement than obtains now, when 
raduated veterinarians are located in almost every consider- 
ble live-stock center, a certain portion of whom are compe- 
snt, qualified men. 
True education is not readily hidden under a bushel, how- 
ver, and when the student emerged from college with a true 
onception of veterinary science, although unacquainted with 
;s details, he yet unconsciously became a force in his com- 
mnity, and bore to his neighbors some of the respect and 
dmiration for veterinary science, which he had obtained 
