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ing the withering coldness, amounting almost to discountenance, it 
had at its birth to face on one side, while, on another, it had to 
struggle against direct opposition ; and seeing how, despite of all, 
the journal has thriven and prospered; remembering and beh'old- 
ing all this, we repeat, we cannot but confess we feel some satis- 
faction at having been instrumental in laying the foundation for 
twenty volumes of matter which, for amount of useful knowledge 
and valuable information elicited, may vie with any — nay, indeed, 
all — of the veterinary works extant. We say this in no spirit of 
boast or ostentation — much less with the remotest thought of de- 
tracting one iota from the well-earned laurels of individual veteri- 
nary authorship. We take little credit to ourselves for it. For 
our own part, we have been but compilers and arrangers while 
others have kindly and constantly been furnishing the materiel , 
and from time to time have sent us jewels of practical worth 
which we have done our best to set off to the greatest advantage. 
And in our “ we” let us not forget the name — the cherished and 
long-to-be-remembered and revered name — of YOUATT. Duty 
and gratitude — to leave out friendship— both whisper us, we owe 
it to his memory to yield to him whatever merit may be deemed 
due on the score of Editorship. For fifteen years out of the 
twenty he laboured long and late, and alone , in the cause of this 
Journal ; and to his persevering industry and talent may be attri- 
buted the twenty years’ prosperous course The VETERINARIAN 
has run. By the support of its friends The VETERINARIAN has 
achieved so much, and with that support continued it can do the 
like again. 
A " cattle show” — or at least the cattle show — appears to have 
become in these our days a sort of omnibus show, a show if not of 
all, at least for all ; for, nowadays, not farmers and graziers, and 
aristocratic and amateur agriculturists alone pay their annual visit 
thereto, but men go whose pursuits or callings are as widely dif- 
ferent from agriculture as agriculture itself is from watch-making 
or stay-making : we say stay-making, for even ladies find their 
way thither, though, to be sure, their number was insignificant 
compared to that of their lords and masters. Novelty and fashion 
have, no doubt, had their share in the attractions of the show; but 
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