THE AGRICULTURIST 
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object of the Association will also be accomplished, for the ex- 
pences and the burdens will be diminished, and the value of 
the produce will be enhanced. 
But what has this to do with a Veterinary Periodical ? Much — 
everything. Are we not connected, identified with the interests 
of the agriculturist ? Is it not, or ought it not to be, part of our 
profession to relieve the diseases, to improve the condition, and 
to prolong the lives and usefulness of the most valuable part of 
his property ? Is the connexion between the veterinarian and the 
agriculturist a matter of doubt ? Why, this very association — its 
founders had well considered all the benefits it could bestow — 
this very association has plainly and fully recognized the con- 
nexion. It has done that which ought to have been done many 
a year ago. It has declared its determination to make a science, 
to which the cavalry and the commercial interest are deeply in- 
debted, and to which even the agriculturist already owes much — 
it has declared its determination to make that science as useful 
as its ample, its boundless means are calculated to make it. It 
has anticipated our application to it. Unsolicited it has deter- 
mined to make our profession what it was designed to be — what 
it is elsewhere, — a part and portion of itself. 
What do we read as one of its objects? “ To promote the 
establishment of Agricultural and Veterinary Professorships, expe- 
rimental farms, and schools throughout the country for the instruc- 
tion of farmer’s sons in the sciences applicable to agriculture.” 
Experimental farms, and veterinary schools ! an experimental 
farm and a veterinary school combined, and in the heart of a 
breeding district, where the subjects of experiment and the sub- 
jects of disease would be plentifully supplied — where practical 
illustration would supersede all theoretical speculation — a Tou- 
louse school flourishing, and an Alfort one not impaired — the 
interests of agriculturists consulted, and that of the cavalry not 
injured — the cattle and the sheep recognized as veterinary patients, 
and saved from many a murderous pest, and the horse not aban- 
doned — a school for dissemination of that veterinary knowledge 
which is especially connected with the farmer’s weal established, 
and that at St, Pancras continuing to befriend the horse — are 
