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ilaries and material not far from $30,000, or a total cost per 
tinum for experiments on animals of $50,000. A compari- 
an of these figures with the existing equipments, and the 
rork accomplished as shown by recorded results, is, to say 
le least, somewhat startling. There is more than one sta- 
on where the veterinarian receives one-half his salary for 
apposed station work, yet has no building or even a pad- 
ock, coop or cage in which to confine an experiment animal, 
as no animal to confine, no microscope or microscopical ap- 
liance, no bacteriological apparatus, no money to expend 
)r material, appliances or other necessities, and no immedi- 
te prospects of such funds or conveniences being placed at 
is command. Yet such men inform me that they are occa- 
onally chided for their meager results. Still, they can 
:arcely be called the most unfortunately situated, and in- 
cad of saying, “ Blessed are the poor/’ we should say, 
Blessed are the destitute, for from them no rational man 
in expect returns.” Surely, some of us are in a far more 
npleasant situation, with buildings totally inadequate and 
holly unsuitable, enough apparatus to occupy some space, 
et not enough to work with, and an amount of funds avail- 
ale barely sufficient to warrant failure of every undertaking. 
At the scene of my labors, the veterinarian has at his com¬ 
mand one microscope without eye-pieces, and while there is 
considerable number of appliances for bacteriological work, 
st the equipment is quite inadequate. For material the nec- 
ssary funds cannot be obtained. When eight or ten cattle 
ere asked for and promised, as a basis for experimentation 
ith actinomycosis bovis in relation to its transmissibility from 
limal to animal, and the fitness of the meat of actinomycotic 
ittle for human food, the authorities delivered one superan- 
aated he-goat whose peculiar idiosyncrasies and odor had 
mdered him unpopular at the college farm. While the de¬ 
mands have not in all cases been so wholly denied, yet the 
mds placed at the disposal of the veterinarian have been so 
eager as to ensure failure of experimental work, and bring 
1 the more censure on the veterinarian for the want of sub- 
antial results for the meager expenditure. The equipment 
