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MAP SHOWING THE ITINERARY OF THE CORN SPECIAL TRAINS.

Report of the

Dean of the Division of Veterinary Medicine

November 28, 1905.

MY DEAR PRESIDENT STORMS: I am pleased to report that the past year has been one of greath growth, progress and development for the Division of Veterinary Medicine. It has fully demonstrated the wisdom of the adoption of a four-year course of study.

The trinity of reading, writing and spelling can no longer be accepted as evidence sufficient for admission to the Division of Veterinary Medicine. I sincerely hope that the last barrier to the main:enance of a high standard has been swept away forever and that the candidate for admission will be measured by the same rule that governs the admission to the other divisions of the College. The adoption of this rule will insure sufficient training and ability to deal with abstruse subjects and therefore fitness to grasp and work out the different problems met with by the student in the work leading to his professional degree.

In the revision and extension of the course of study to four years, the valuable and practical work of Stock Judging and Animal Nutrition has been added. This enables the student to gain a thorough knowledge of live stock as they appear in health, and be brought into closer touch with the workings of the great live stock industry.

The study of Physiology and Pathology shows no fundamental difference between that of man and the domestic animals, as most of the knowledge acquired has been attained through experiments upon the lower animals.

The Veterinarian, as a Sanitarian, guards the greatest income producing property of the United States; the most profitable branch. of agriculture. "It feeds more people; it furnishes more homes than any other branch of manufacturing, commerce or trade. The success of our agricultural population depends upon their horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. Moreover, the butchers, milk dealers and numberless other industries and interests depend upon animals and animal products for their support."

Certain of the infectious animal diseases are a menace to the live stock industry. Tuberculosis, one of the most prevalent, has fastened itself upon the herds of cattle and droves of hogs, causing annually,

losses amounting to millions of dollars, to say nothing of the dangers attendant to mankind upon the use of the flesh or milk of animals so diseased.

An intelligent consideration of this subject requires a knowledge of the number and value of our live stock, the essential character of this industry to the growth and prosperity of other industries and the necessity of preserving the health of our domestic animals, because of their money value and especially, lest through disease, they become a menace to human health.

As reported by the United States Department of Agriculture, January 1, 1905, the number, average price and total value of farm animals in the United States are as follows: The number of horses in the United States is 17,057,702, valued at $1,200,310,020 ($70.37 per head). The number of mules, 2,888,710, value $251,840,378 ($87.18 per head); milch cows, 17, 572,464, value, $482,272,203 ($27.44 per head); other cattle, 43,669,443, value $661,571,308 ($15.15 per head); sheep 45,170,423, value $127,331,850 ($2.82 per head); swine 47,320,511, value $285,254,978 ($5.99 per head). Grand total number of live stock 173,679,253, value $3,006,580,737.

Iowa stands first in the total valuation of live stock, amounting to $244,980,801 or nearly one-eighth of the total valuation for the United States. The total number of hogs is about 7,500,000, value about $50,000,000 and with an estimated annual loss of 6 per cent, makes practically a $3,000,000 loss to the hog raisers of Iowa, which could in a great measure be prevented, as the mortality is chiefly due to hog cholera, swine plague and tuberculosis.

The Veterinary Hospital, managed in connection with the Division of Veterinary Medicine, furnishes a large amount of clinical material for practical instruction and demonstration. The patients are not alone supplied by local clients, but many of them are brought quite a distance for treatment. During the school year of 1904-05, there were treated at the free clinic, for various ailments, over 1,000 cases. These patients are cared for by the Senior and Junior students under the immediate direction of the hospital staff, composed of the members of the Veterinary faculty. A nominal fee is charged for all cases remaining in the hospital. The patients adimitted for treatment have gradually increased in numbers during the past three years and the services rendered have been quite satisfactory to the owners. The income from this source makes the hospital more than self-sustaining.

I submit the following list of students taking work in the Divi

sion of Veterinary Medicine for the past three years and the number matriculated in the first semester of the present year:

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The Division of Veterinary Medicine has reached a period in its development and growth where it can no longer advance and expand unless something material is added in the way of buildings and equipment. The proper location of a Veterinary Building costing not less than $150,000, easy of access, containing offices, laboratories, lecture, clinic and dissecting rooms, would materially add in the up

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