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draw upon their special knowledge and skill in any effort to 
protect and improve the flocks and herds of the commonwealth. 
If the veterinary faculty are not pre-eminent in the special lines 
that they respectively teach the college will fail of the object 
for which it is established ; but if they are, as they must be, 
each pre-eminent in his specialty then this pre-eminence 
should be secured for the immediate benefit of the State, as well 
as for the more remote benefit which must come from the 
education of veterinarians. 
Value of the Veterinary Faculty as Investigators. —In all 
veterinary sanitary work there are constant questions of path¬ 
ology, of microscopy, of the influence of soils, drainage, foods, 
and of toxic and other plants, of bacteria and their products, of 
the whole new world of potencies connected with bacteria, of 
toxins and antitoxins, of ptomaines and enzymes, of albumoses, 
nucleins and globulins, of phagocytosis and chemiotaxis, of 
lessened and exalted virulence and their causes, of the relative 
resistance of different animal fluids and tissues, and of different 
genera, and of the influence of life conditions on such resistance, 
of the toxic and antidotal effects of combinations between dif¬ 
ferent bacterial products, of the different susceptabilities of the 
germs to the influence of environment and of disinfectant agents, 
and of the thousand other things that go to determine results. 
The laboratories of the veterinary college, fitted up by State 
funds for the investigation of all such subjects, are the only 
proper places for such experiment and investigation. This can 
be done nowhere else so effectively, unless the State should 
duplicate both laboratories and experts at a most extravagant 
and altogether unnecessary outlay. 
The Educatio?ial Value of Sanitary and Experimental Worh .—- 
The closest connection between the veterinary sanitary work and 
the work of investigation and experiment on the one hand, and 
the State Veterinary College on the other, is absolutely essential 
to the maintenance of a high standard in its educational methods. 
The most accomplished teacher cannot keep fully abreast of 
the times, unless he is constantly en rapport with the burning 
