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easy to arrive at a new variety possessing some desired 
quality. 
We believe, however, that it is not difficult to alter a 
climate to suit a sort, and in all probability this at the 
present day much misused term of acclimatization simply 
means no more than making our cultivation and climate 
accord as nearly as possible to the habits of the plant or 
animal to be entertained under new conditions.r 
Thus when we see the finer white wheats growing good 
crops on farms where such would have been impossible a few 
years ago, we are hardly to conclude that we have at length 
got this more delicate sort to become more hardy ,* but the 
climate has been ameliorated by draining and better cultiva- 
tion. We distinctly remember when the lias clays could 
scarcely be made to grow a good crop, even of some of the 
hardier sorts of red wheat, the common coarse cone wheat, 
with its long awns being the sort generally grown. 
This was succeeded by many sorts of red wheat, and now 
only the best cultivated lias farms produce white wheats. 
On our own farm good roots and a generous system of 
farming have made good crops of white wheats the rule 
when even red was at one time very precarious. These are 
facts which will be more strongly urged when we consider 
the derivation of other kinds of grain ; but for the present we 
will be content with the expression of a belief that wheat 
as a cereal grain is derived by cultivation from a wild grass, 
and it is due to the effects of cultivation that we have so 
many sorts with such variable adaptability, and further the 
general success of newer sorts over older ones is that they 
are fresh to the land, and so get, as it were, a fresh run 
of those changes by which their differences have been 
induced. 
REMARKS UPON THE USE OF ACTUAL CAUTERY 
AS APPLYING TO THE VETERINARY PRO- 
FESSION. 
By J. W. Hill, M.R.C.V.S.L., Wolverhampton. 
I was rather astonished, on perusing The Veterinarian of 
July last, to observe, in some remarks upon the use of the 
actual cautery, doctrines set forth that I certainly thought 
belonged only to the past. Under the head of rules in that 
