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A. LIAUTARD. 
A comparison will show that there is no great difference 
in the curriculum of the two classes of schools. The principal 
subjects omitted are botany, zoology, and bacteriology. The 
omission of the last is worthy of special notice as this subject 
is the real foundation for a true knowledge of pathology. 
Being, then, no marked difference in the list of subjects 
taught, where does the difference lie ? How can some schools 
graduate students in one-half the time required by others ? 
A careful study of the facilities of the different colleges to 
teach the subjects laid down in their curriculums, shows that 
there is a great difference regarding this point. The facilities 
for teaching some branches in the two-year colleges are good, 
while those for teaching others are very poor. It has been 
said that although the staff of instructors is large and may con¬ 
tain noted members of the profession, that as a principal part 
of their mediums are derived from private practice, they 
give but little time to the work of the college and that 
consequently the college does not receive the best work the 
instructor is capable of doing. The facilities for teaching 
anatomy, surgery and veterinary medicine we find good in 
most of these schools, but the facilities for teaching the cor¬ 
relative branches, subjects which if understood enable the 
student to better understand the strictly veterinary studies, 
are in all very poor. • • 
Proper laboratory room and the necessary apparatus are 
not at hand, and where these subjects are taught at all it is 
simply by lectures; as work in the laboratory is the essential 
feature in teaching such subjects as bacteriology, chemistry, 
botany, zoology, etc., it is not strange that the graduates of 
these schools know so little of these subjects. 
In the schools connected with the State educational insti¬ 
tutions the facilities for teaching all the correlative branches 
we find exceedingly good. These institutions have well 
equipped laboratories which are accessible to the students of 
all the departments. These students are taught by men who 
have qualified themselves by years of careful study bearing 
on one particular science. Their entire time is given to the 
work, and when necessary to better the instruction classes are 
divided into sections. 
