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questions of the hour ; and, therefore, it is not enough that we 
secure the best men as teachers, but we must provide them with 
the means of maintaining their pre-eminence. The veterinary 
faculty, therefore, and the laboratory workers should be placed in 
the closest relation with every department of sanitary work in 
the field, not only that the State should secure the best and 
most economical service in its field work, but that the ability of 
the teachers in the State college should be constantly stimulated 
and kept up to date, and that the students should be provided 
with the most advanced teaching and the best ocular demonstra¬ 
tion. The material from the field, and the questions that rise 
in field work should be constantly available for such demonstra¬ 
tion and for such advancement of veterinary science. This the 
students have a right to demand, and this the stock owners who 
are to entrust their property to these students in after life have 
a right to demand. 
Value of Sanitary Field Work in Securing Better Teachers .— 
The eminent scientist is not willing to bury himself where he can¬ 
not have the best opportunity for advancement in his specialty. 
He may decline a chair where this opportunity is restricted, 
whilst he would grasp at a position which offered abundant op¬ 
portunity for investigation and advancement. 
In every sense, therefore, in economy and efficiency, in 
justice to the professor, in justice to the student, in justice to the 
stock owner and community, it is imperative that the State vet¬ 
erinary college shall be kept in the closest touch with all 
practical veterinary sanitary work. Not in regard to tuberculosis 
or glanders alone, but in regard to the whole immense field of 
veterinary science and comparative medicine, this rule holds: 
that alike for the present good of the stock owner, for the ad¬ 
vancement of comparative medicine, and for the education of 
our future practitioners of comparative medicine, our veterinary 
college of the State of New York should be very fully equipped 
in material and talent, and that both should be availed of as far 
as they can be, by the closest connection with the veterinary 
sanitary work of the commonwealth. 
