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N. S. MAYO. 
Next in importance I should place a thorough training in 
the natural sciences, zoology, botany, chemistry and physics ; 
they are the handmaids of our profession. They will teach a 
love of truth for Truth’s sake ; they will be a source of genuine 
pleasure and will open beautiful vistas along the pathway of life 
for his enjoyment, and he will find “sermons in stones, books 
in brooks and good in everything.” In the technical education 
of die future veterinarian I should place greater stress upon 
microscopy, embryology, histology, pathology and bacteriology, 
because of their scientific training, the study of the cell, the 
unit of life,” as well as death, and the changes they undergo, 
normally and in disease, and I believe this knowledge should be 
acquited in the laboiatory. I am not a believer in the lecture- 
100m except as an aid. Don’t stuff the student with facts 5 give 
him the training and the opportunity, and he will acquire them 
himself. 
There is a wonderful opportunity for scientific research in 
our profession ; every day brings us face to face with the un¬ 
known, with great problems that need to be solved, and in the 
gieat stock-raising States of the West is a field for scientific re¬ 
search, “white for the harvest.” 
What are the rewards ? 
I know it is often said that republics are ungrateful ; if this 
is so, it is to be hoped they will soon reform, but there are ex¬ 
cellent opportunities and rewards in the experiment stations of 
the various States and in the National Bureau of Animal Indus- 
try, where compensation for^good work is not meagre. ( Then 
there is the reward in personal satisfaction that comes with the 
successful solving of nature’s secrets, secrets known only to the 
investigator and to Cxod who made them, and the satisfaction 
of the reward that all mankind yields to him who by his efforts 
helps mankind or the animals in his keeping. 
If I may be permitted a word of caution to the veterinarian 
of the future it would be to go slowly —be sure. I know our 
eagei American spirit is clamoring for results, but go slowly ; 
do not let your enthusiastic devotion to scientific inquiry lead 
