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EDITORIAL. 
that after great sacrifices that we have once again resumed our line 
of work as editor and publisher, with the additions of valuable 
assistants and collaborators. 
It is therefore in issuing the double number of April and May, 
the firsts of the nineteenth volume, that we express the hope that 
the little interruption and the delay, which has occurred, will be 
overlooked and that we have to look towards our correspondents 
to return to us and send us communications as in the past. 
That no efforts will be spared on our parts to make the RE¬ 
VIEW what it has always been, that every reason of complaints 
which have been so well justified during the last few months, 
will be avoided, are promises that our past mode of doing ren¬ 
ders unnecessary. 
Subscribers will do us a great favor in notifying us of their 
desires to continue their contributions and also inform us of what 
reclamations they may have to make. The bureau of redaction 
and publication will do its best to satisfy every one, as much and 
as rapidly as it will be in our power. 
Norman Breed of Cattle. —We have already presented 
that subject in previous issues, and we feel so interested in the 
importance of the subject, that once again we have to return to 
it. 
It is no easy matter to introduce a new thing, no matter how 
good it may be, but the result can be considered much easier 
when the object in view possesses superior qualities, and that 
those can be fully examined into and readily recognized by those 
who are most interested in it. 
Who can be benefited by the introduction of the Cotentin 
cows in the United States? All who are interested in the dairy 
products. And whether it is the private individual who owns 
but one cow, or those who have large herds, and deal with its 
milk and its butter, it is the same. But that is not sufficient. 
Some who know what must be the qualities of the cow or of the 
steer, are the ones who can call the attention of the public to 
these qualities. And when such authorities as the American 
