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strict supervision as to the modes, and there will soon be found plenty 
of unscrupulous men who will seek to work such a machine for their 
own personal aggrandizement. This is the rock on which the two 
schools in question have split, and this it is that should be jealously 
guarded in chartering any new veterinary college. 
REQUISITES IN A VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
A veterinary college requires a body of trustees whose position shall 
be a guarantee of good faith, such an oversight in fact as is now given 
to our best State agricultural colleges. It requires a faculty whose at¬ 
tainments are guaranteed not only by public confidence, but by the pos¬ 
session of a degree of one of the best existing veterinary colleges, and if 
possible by repute for original investigation. It requires that all candi¬ 
dates for admission shall submit to an entrance examination to test their 
possession of an education sufficient to enable them to pursue their pro¬ 
fessional studies to advantage. It requires that a very full course of 
study shall be pursued within its walls before a candidate can present 
himself for examination in order to the obtaining of a degree. It re¬ 
quires that degrees shall only be awarded after a satisfactory examination 
at a designated time and place, by a board of examiners apart from the 
faculty of the college. It requires, finally, a sufficient endowment, so 
that it may be fully furnished with all the necessary appliances for ren¬ 
dering the instruction lucid and thorough, and to guard against the 
constant temptation in medical schools to crowd in numbers, irrespec¬ 
tive of fitness, and to graduate them at the earliest possible moment, in 
order to increase the salaries of the teachers. 
The establishing of such an institution would very fitly'come from 
the central government. By the land scrip grants every State has been 
supplied with the means of carrying on an agricultural and mechanical 
college, but in the midst of all this, the vast interests that centre in our 
live stock and their diseases have been almost entirely ignored. No 
country in Europe, excepting Russia, at all approaches us in the number 
of its live stock, and yet no civilized land so utterly ignores the need of 
veterinary care. The following table, giving the numbers of the four 
principal classes of live stock in the United States, and in two of the 
foremost countries of Europe, will illustrate this : 
Horses and 
mules. Cattle. Sheep. Swine. 
United States, 1875. 11,149,800 27,870,700 35,935,300 25,726,800 
Prussia, 1867. 2,313,817 7,996,818 22,262,087 4,875,114 
“ 1877. 3,352,231 
Great Britain and Ireland, 1874.... 2,226,739 6,115,491 30,313,941 2,422,832 
“ “ 1877.... 2,790,851 
