VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 
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lg it impossible to carry out the modern rules of surgery, 
nd any surgical operation highly dangerous. The private 
irgeon, operating under such conditions, would be held re- 
Donsible for untoward results in his patients. 
The additional possible danger of contagious diseases in 
Dntiguous stalls renders the conditions for free clinics quite 
nfavorable. This probably forms a solitary exception in 
ich mal-arrangement of buildings, and there is reason to 
ope it will be eventually remedied. 
1 know of no other school where so unfavorable condi- 
ons exist. 
The material for clinical demonstration in most of these 
Tools is reasonably adequate, and of an appropriate charac- 
r, since the schools are generally located in agricultural 
immunities, and the clinics usually free, the agricultural 
udent receives clinical instruction upon those diseases most 
'evalent among farm animals, and consequently of most 
rect interest and value to him. 
Again, the student who desires later to complete an edu- 
.tion in veterinary science finds these clinics of special value, 
'e-eminently so if he intends after graduation to locate in an 
pdcultural region. In this respect these clinics are usually 
lite superior in character to those offered in our veterinary 
•lieges located in large cities, where they are confined closely 
the diseases incident to city environments and work, while 
e diseases of young and breeding animals are rarely met 
ith. Here the intending veterinary student can study with 
eat advantage the collateral branches and acquire a general 
ucation, which is, as a rule, sadly deficient in our profession 
America—and can at the same time enter upon the more 
rect veterinary studies deliberately and yet earnestly, and 
addition enjoy special facilities for studying that class of 
seases which are the most ineffectually taught in veterinary 
lieges—the diseases of young and breeding animals. 
It certainly should cause no surprise to find such students 
stinguishing themselves in the veterinary colleges after 
ch deliberate preparation, instead of plunging suddenly 
:o the whirl of the busy curriculum of the short-course col- 
