Excerpt from Cornell University Official Publication, Vol. 10: The Report of the Conference at the New York State Veterinary College During the Semi-Centennial Celebration of Cornell University, June, 1919

I have also dealt with anthrax in grazing cattle, by sterilized serum from the infected. Others have failed with dairy cows. Perhaps the effect of milk and milking on the system robs the serum of its value. So with blackleg. These illustrate how different plagues require different fundamental treatment. The whole great field of parasites demands for each its own special treatment.

In 1879 the New York legislature made an appropriation to stamp out lung plague, but after a year's work, with a successful end well in sight, a change in party rule rendered it impossible to do more. In 1887 the plague, as I had pre dicted, appeared in the Chicago Stock Yards. The lesson had now been learned. The Federal government supplied the means and Illinois the authority, and in three months I saw the last acute case of the disease destroyed. This was followed by equally vigorous work in the affected Eastern states, all quarantines were raised and the nation pronounced free from lung plague. The pest had prevailed for 49 years, with an uncounted mortality, had led to the closure of British trade in our live beef cattle, and shut out the still more valuable American thoroughbreds from the English market. These experiences doubtless had their part in paving the way for the action of the New York State legislature when in 1894, on the recommendation of Governor Flower, acts were passed establishing at Cornell University the first State Veterinary College in America.

Senator E. C. Stewart of Ithaca introduced and successfully carried through the various bills requisite for the establishing of the college, the appropriation of for buildings, other appropriations for maintenance, and the vesting of the administration in Cornell University. In arranging the curriculum, the exist ing scientific departments, laboratories, and libraries were all made use of, as far as possible, and eight men were appointed to the veterinary faculty proper. The writer was made director of the college and has ever counted himself most fortun ate in his association with the seven distinguished men who began with him the work of the new college: Simon H. Gage, Veranus A. Moore, Pierre A. Fish, Walter L. Williams, Grant 8. Hopkins, Benjamin F. Kingsbury, and Raymond C. Reed. Though better than the equipment for the pioneer work of the early days of Cornell, the as yet imperfect equipment of the newborn college at times sorely tried the earnestness and devotion of these loyal men.

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