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JAMES LAW. 
conditions in each district and would be enabled to render so 
much the more efficient and valuable service. 
The Value of a State Veterinary College in this Connection. —-It 
is generally confessed that a main drawback to the immediate 
organization and successful administration of measures for the 
supervision of tuberculosis and other preventible diseases in 
flocks and herds is the lack of veterinary practitioners sufficiently 
educated on modern sanitary science to undertake the work. 
By the acts of a few years ago veterinary surgeons have been 
manufactured wholesale in this State by simple registration and 
without any educational prerequisite whatever, until the title has 
come to mean practically nothing. It was this recognized need 
that drew from Governor Flower and the Commissioner of 
Agriculture the recommendation that better facilities should be 
provided for the protection of our live-stock by improving the 
means of veterinary education, and which led the legislature to 
establish the Veterinary College of the State of New York, and 
to make an appropriation therefor. To make this college 
and its curriculum commensurate to the task of protecting our 
$200,000,000 worth of live-stock, and of providing the class of 
veterinarians capable of furnishing such protection as a full 
knowledge of all modern sanitary and therapeutic methods can 
provide, the State must, as it doubtless will, equip that college 
as fully as the best veterinary college in the old world, and 
furnish the means of drawing to its chairs the best talent which 
it is possible to secure. 
Value of Such Veterinary Faculty to the State. —When such a 
faculty shall have been secured it would be a profligate policy 
in every sense to leave its skill unused in the practical work of 
veterinary sanitary science. The man who is above all others 
fitted to teach the subject of veterinary sanitary science, or of 
veterinary prophylactics, or veterinary therapeutics is confessedly 
the best man to say how such special subject should be prac¬ 
tically applied to the flocks and herds. The State will have 
these men in its own employ, and it will be doing an injustice to 
its citizens and robbing them of their just rights if it fails to 
