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EDITORIAL. 
that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.” The profes¬ 
sion is fighting with all its might for the change which we know 
should be made and against the stubbornly held but fossilized 
views the War Department has regarding the veterinarian. If 
you are, as you say, proud of your profession, you will exert 
every pennyweight of your energy to secure the passage of this 
most important bill. Because of the approaching general election 
and the possibility of a change of parties members of Congress 
are solicitous of your votes. They must help us if we are to aid 
them. Bind them over to support the Army Veterinary Bill. 
Your enmity to the present state of veterinary affairs in the army 
should ring true as the sound of the hammer on the anvil. 
THE BREEDING QUESTION. 
Probably no question in connection with agriculture bears a 
closer relation to veterinary science than the breeding question; 
therefore no question demands the attention and careful study 
of the veterinarian more than does this vital one in zootechny. 
And if the veterinarian would fill the niche that is open to him in 
the field of agriculture and add his mite in the upbuilding of 
that important science so closely related to his own, he must be 
a careful student and close observer of nature’s laws, and must 
look beyond the surface, where he will find that much which has 
for generations been regarded as fact will be found to be but 
mere conjecture. An illustration is given by Dr. Edw. A. Cahill 
in an article on “ Cystic Ovaries and Sterility ” in the April 
issue of the American Veterinary Review, in which the doc¬ 
tor points out the presence of cystic ovaries as being the real con¬ 
dition accountable for sterility, which is usually attributed to 
“ closure of the womb ” by the laity, a condition which they at¬ 
tempt to overcome by dilation of the os themselves, or call in a 
veterinarian to do it for them, who accepts the cause which they 
have attributed as being responsible for sterility in the subject, 
and proceeds along the same lines to overcome it, not only 
