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to our wants in a new country (America), and farming being 
a practical art , can only be properly taught by those who are 
practical farmers themselves , and who are personally acquainted 
with the difficulties and wants of their readers. Are not (the 
Editors ask) these sufficient reasons ?” If well founded, we 
feel no hesitation whatever in answering “ they are !” We can 
readily understand how that Eastern publications may be ill- 
adapted or altogether unadapted for Western purposes; 
and we will take our brother editors’ words for Western 
productions of the sort being, like too many of our Eastern, 
deficient in that sterling merit, practical worth. Therefore it 
is that we believe their “ reasons” to be sound . To give the 
readers of ‘ The Veterinarian’ some sample of the fruits of 
the journal, we on the present occasion make choice of a 
couple of extracts more peculiarly fitted for our own readers : 
GRADE, CROSS-BLOOD, AND FELL* BLOOD. 
“When Talleyrand the celebrated French Politician, de- 
clared that e words were given to us to conceal our thoughts,’ 
he probably described with accuracy his own use of them, and 
that of many of his own profession. But to an honest 
straight-forward man, words are often troublesome in con- 
cealing facts from him ; and, in truth, we incline to believe, 
that half the troubles, controversies, mistakes, and hard 
feelings in life originate in our understanding words in a 
different sense from those who use them. That this is the case 
with the words which we have placed at the head of this 
article, every Agricultural Fair can witness. At the last 
held in Detroit, we had the honour of being on the Committee 
on Horned Stock, including the above kinds; and both there 
and in other directions we were painfully convinced that 
these words were not understood. We sa y painfully, because 
there were some instances where, owing to this mistake, the 
articles had been wrongly entered for a premium ; the rules 
obliged us to accept and judge of them as entered ; and we 
could not help sympathising with those who, by a mere 
verbal misunderstanding, lost the chance of a prize. Our 
fairs are social and good-natured opportunities for com- 
petition ; the money received by the fortunate is but a trifle ; 
the honour and the satisfaction of knowing, and letting our 
neighbours know, that our endeavours to improve have been 
crowned with success, are the chief things, and that they 
should be lost after so much trouble, by so trifling a mistake, 
