EDITORIAL. 
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interest which should be accorded to any well considered and able 
presentation of a question of acknowledged importance. 
The announcements of the schools for the coming terms will 
doubtless be anxiously scanned by gentlemen contemplating en¬ 
listment in the ranks of intending veterinary students, and it is to 
be hoped that none of them will be tempted by the consideration 
of the additional year to be devoted to the labor of preparatory 
study, to object to the adoption of a policy which must insure, in 
its practical workings, a result which can but add to their self 
reliance and comfort when they shall enter upon their subsequent 
career as qualified practitioners. The end of the matter will be 
watched for with much curiosity by our inchoate D.Y.S’s, and 
others as well. 
Of the thousand students who registered last winter in North 
American veterinary colleges, more than one-half expressed 
their preference for the teaching of the Canadian schools by 
their attendance at those institutions, and it could be the boast of 
one of these that the largest matriculating class in the world has 
issued from its halls. Numerous explanations of this fact might be 
pertinently alleged, which we do not feel it to be our province to in¬ 
dicate, and yet we cannot help thinking that much weight attaches 
to some of the reasons which are found influential in determining 
the preference of the embryo students who thus become sojourn¬ 
ers for a time among the emigrant-boodlers from the United 
States who partly populate our neighbor land. * 
Pleuro-Penumonia in New York. —A judicial decision was 
recently rendered by one of our State courts in Westchester 
county which threatened for a time to interfere seriously with 
the work of the Bureau of Animal Industry, in enforcing the 
law for the extirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia in the 
Empire State. 
Amongst the methods instituted by the Bureau are a census of 
animals and a system of marking them, and these measures are 
as thoroughly carried into effect as possible, and as the importance 
of the work demands. The process of marking consists in attach- 
, ing a small brass tag to the ear of each animal. On the occasion 
referred to, the Inspectors of the Bureau, upon visiting a farm 
in the course of the fulfilment of their official duties, were refused 
