EDITORIAL. 
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diligent study of the laws of propagation. Recognition by the 
stockman of the actual possession of knowledge by the veterina¬ 
rian, superior to his own on matters of breeding, is the only thing 
that actuates him to seek his counsel, not the mere fact that the 
veterinarian possesses a degree in veterinary medicine. We have 
not proceeded quite that far yet in this country, but are working 
diligently to bring that about. The Review believes that the 
American veterinarian, through the broadened curricula of our 
veterinary schools in the last decade, is much better posted on 
breeding problems than is generally known; and that in dis¬ 
cussing breeding questions together, they will not only receive 
the benefits already cited as resulting from such discussion, but 
will attract the attention of the agricultural journals to their in¬ 
terest in and knowledge of such matters, and that it will only be 
a matter of a few years when a degree in veterinary medicine 
will inspire in the stockman the same confidence in the qualifica¬ 
tion of its possessor to advise him how to breed good stock, that 
he now has in his ability to prescribe for his sick ones; and not 
until that comes about will the veterinarian have come into his 
own and have reached his full measure of usefulness in his com¬ 
munity. 
In our present number Veterinarian Olaf Schwarzkopf, Third 
Cavalry, U. S. Army, discusses Breeding Problems and the Army , 
in which the doctor reviews the conditions that have led up to the 
present dearth of army remounts, and opens up a field for dis¬ 
cussion on a very important branch of horse breeding. We also 
quote from a letter just received from a retired veterinarian and 
extensive breeder of draught horses for thirty years, well known 
on both sides of the Atlantic, which will furnish food for thought 
on an entirely different branch of horse breeding. He says, in 
speaking of the Clydesdales: “ To my thinking they have de¬ 
teriorated of late years, by in and in breeding , by selection of 
males and females with too light bone , and by breeding from 
mares and stallions with markedly too much zvhite on faces and 
legs, and many almost pinta.” In another part of his letter he 
says: “ I have been breeding Clydesdales for about thirty years 
