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EDITORIAL. 
duct a scientific school for the teaching of veterinary and sanitary 
science .” 
This is a resolution which was passed at the National Farmers’ 
Congress, held, we believe, in the month of November, 1887, in 
Chicago. 
In Turf\ Field and Farm of Feb. 3d, under the heading of 
“ Smother Them,” appears a notice to which no one can be indif¬ 
ferent. It is that the Honorables Mr. Hampton, of South 
Carolina, and Mr. Wise, of Virginia, one in the Senate, the other 
in the House of Representatives, have both introduced in their 
respective houses bills to the effect that “ schools for instruction 
in veterinary science ” be established at points most suitable. 
Is this last move the result of the wise resolution of the Na¬ 
tional Farmers’ Congress? At first the careless reader interested 
in veterinary progress might think so. But see how great the 
disappointment will be! Who, according to the gentlemen from 
South Carolina and from Virginia, is to be entrusted with this 
enormous task and tremendous responsibility of organizing 
schools of veterinary science in the United States ? Is it one 
whose special ability, peculiar education, national reputation as a 
veterinarian or as a teacher, has pointed him out as the one who 
might attempt the undertaking (if there is such a one daring and 
conceited enough to do it alone)? No, it is one who—whether 
justly or not, we cannot say—has made himself a name as “ a 
horse tamer,” one who is said to be “an uneducated man, a 
cheeky pretender, and a non-graduate.” Is not our excellent con¬ 
temporary right when it says, “Smother them”? Yes, do so, 
and do so as well to all who ignore the true purposes involved in the 
establishment of veterinary schools, if the work which such insti¬ 
tutions will do is ever to be of any use and advantage to our 
people and to the profession. 
Veterinary education has as yet received no assistance from 
the General Government; veterinary graduates have, it is true, 
occasionally received at its hands, in some departments, recogni- * 
tion by receiving appointments to fulfil some special duties, but 
with them non-graduates have also been associated and placed 
upon the same level. The army has a regulation by which none 
