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Veterinary Officer of the Civil Veterinary Department to fill the post of
Resident Veterinary Officer, and Assistant Professor, Veterinary Lieut. E. W.
Larnder, A. V. D., took charge of the appointment on 9th August last from
Mr. Dhákmárwála, who reverted to his former appointment and relieved Mr.
Serájudin Khán. The designation of Resident Veterinary Officer and Assistant
Professor has been changed to that of Assistant Principal. Mr. Dhákmárwála
continued to discharge the duties of Resident Veterinary Officer throughout the
year.
A competent Native Farrier, Máruti Náráyan Sarvade, who is able to teach,
has been engaged as Farrier and Instructor in Shoeing on a monthly salary of
Rs. 60, rising to Rs. 80.
The College staff performed their duties to my satisfaction.
Branches of Study.
9. Anatomy and Surgery.—Sixteen horses were procured during the year
for operations on the dead subject and for dissection.
It is under the consideration of Government to build a
dissecting and post mortem room at the Sewri Lazaretto.
Hygiene.—The Commissariat Department this year also kindly lent mules
and pack saddles for teaching purposes. Mr. J. Sheehy, Commandant, Mounted
Police, Bombay, gave instruction in pack saddle fitting, and the handling of
transport mules, to the senior students. Government sanctioned an honorarium
of Rs. 40 to be given to Mr. Sheehy for this extra duty.
The Management of Dairy, Work Cattle, &c.—Government in their Resolu-
tion No. 2565, dated 4th December 1894, Educational Department, sanctioned,
at my recommendation, that a course of lectures be delivered by Mr. Mollison,
Superintendent of Government Farms. Accordingly, in the month of December
last, the senior students were sent to the Government Farm, Kirkee, for this
purpose. He delivered 25 lectures on the following subjects :—
(a) The principles of breeding farm animals, especially in reference to
cattle and sheep.
(b) The management and feeding of milch cattle, work cattle, and young
stock in India.
(c) The breeding, feeding, and general management of sheep and goats
in India.
(d) The natural conditions requisite on a breeding farm; the arrangements
of byres and buildings. Farm-yard manure, and the conditions on which
its value depends. Proper methods of storing the solid and liquid excre-
ment of farm animals in India.
(e) The food of farm animals; identification of the ordinary food given
to farm animals in India. Their commercial and relative feeding values,
and nutrient ratio. The economical mixing of food, and economical prepa-
ration of food by chopping, boiling, steaming, crushing, &c.
(f) Ensilage and hay-making. The manner in which fodder should
be cured and stored.
(g) The cultivation of lucerne and guinea-grass. The various sor-
ghums and millets, maize, &c., all as green fodders.
(h) The characteristics, &c., of the indigenous breeds of cattle and of
buffaloes. The adaptability of each breed for certain purposes.
(i) Water lifts and methods of irrigation.
(j) Milk and the manufacture of milk products.
I cannot speak too highly of the value of this interesting and profitable
course delivered by Mr. Mollison. He is, in my opinion, a gentleman of rare
practical attainments, and I consider that it would be to the material advance-
ment of veterinary education were he to be made one of the permanent staff of
the College.
Surgery.—The senior students were taken several times to the Sewri
Lazaretto to see cases, to be taught operations on the dead subject, and to receive
lectures on Operative Surgery.