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by alleged practitioners, and others who encroach on onr rights 
by representing themselves to be qualified to practice veterinary 
surgery, and thus imposing on country clients especially. This 
matter is one which certainly requires more attention than it 
has heretofore received. Now that the educational standard re¬ 
quired of the student is such as to necessitate a longer period of 
study, and preparation through greater fields, I consider it is 
our duty, not only to the newly qualified veterinary surgeon, 
but to our own personal welfare, to try to combat the present 
state of things which certainly seems to be developing, and in¬ 
stead of allowing further obstacles to our professional progress 
to spring up, we ought to be seeking out fresh fields of occupa¬ 
tion. 
Gentlemen, it would ill become me to trespass upon your 
time any further, when we have such interesting papers ahead 
of us. I therefore will close this address, thanking you for your 
kind attention, and hoping you have found it in a slight meas¬ 
ure worthy of interest. 
SCIENTIFIC BREEDING. 
By J. R. Kelso, D.V.S., Baraboo, Wis. 
A Paper Read before the Wisconsin Society of Veterinary Graduates, February 5. 
It is not my intention to present to you any special method 
or system to follow in breeding or selection, applicable to all 
breeds, or suitable to all breeders ; neither to eulogize or pro¬ 
voke criticism for or against any particular breed or breeder, 
fully believing that a higher and more scientific system of breed¬ 
ing can be adopted by the breeders of each individual breed, 
and this, by a more thorough and scientific selection of sire and 
dam, and thereby reach a higher and more perfect physical con¬ 
formation. * 
The primitive horse was a diminutive animal, not much 
larger than an ass, standing about thirteen hands high, the 
largest specimen not exceeding fourteen hands. The head wets 
