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HON. C. P. HAWES. 
This state of things will continue until the Government 
lends its moral support to veterinary science by a recognition 
of our graduates as men bearing professional rank and worthy 
of professional compensation. 
The great Department of Agriculture expends large sums 
of money in sending correspondents over the country and 
publishing volume after volume of letters about the number of 
horses and sheep in different counties and States, and repub¬ 
lishes, with much commendation, the statutes enacted by the 
different States tending to prohibit the introduction of dis¬ 
eased cattle and urging strict quarantine regulations, but not 
one dollar does it give towards the education of men who 
can successfully meet these startling difficulties, and not one 
word does it lend to their encouragement or help. I some¬ 
times think that there will be no real substantial progress in 
veterinary science in the United States until the country is 
devastated by such terrible epidemic plagues among horses 
and cattle as have visited Europe and India and Australia. 
The animal loss in India alone has reached more than thirty 
millions of dollars. It has been even worse in Australia and 
South Africa. Once let the dreaded Russian typhus, that 
sweeps off the cattle from the Russian plains by the thou¬ 
sands in a single day, make its appearance, not only the-Gov¬ 
ernment, but the farmer and the cattle raiser and the cattle 
owner the country over would wake up to the necessity of 
encouraging veterinary education, and would be only too 
glad to make generous contributions for liberal veterinary 
culture and veterinary research. And what shall I say of 
individuals who own stables in this city alone of the value, in 
some cases, of half a million dollars—horses that they admire 
and care for, in some respects, as they would their own chil¬ 
dren, and yet they do not turn their hand, nor contribute a 
single dollar, nor encourage in any shape or form the up¬ 
building of a worthy veterinar}^ college in this city. Where 
are the lovers of horses, who are not only patrons of the turf, 
but are liheral and generous givers to all worthy objects? 
New York City doubtless has the finest horses and the 
best bred dogs in the world, and it has more of them. It also 
