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equal number of non-graduates were also subscribers, thus 
forcing a very uncomplimentary comparison, and suggesting 
the query: Is it because the graduates rely, in a self-conceited 
way, too much on their college education, and think they have 
learned all they need to know, or are they simply indifferent 
about knowing anything at all, so long as their diploma is a 
guarantee of legal right to practice ? 
There seems to be little doubt that what has been said of 
this one journal is equally true of all others, and I wish each 
of you to ask in your own minds if such treatment of your¬ 
selves and the veterinary journals is not shameful and with¬ 
out excuse. This brings me to another subject of great in¬ 
terest, the founding of a new veterinary journal, which was 
recently brought up at a meeting of the Iowa Veterinary As¬ 
sociation, and brought to my notice by the following letter 
from one of the members, from which I quote : 
“ I feel that I would like to attend [your meeting], as I am 
desirous of having the subject of a good monthly veterinary 
journal brought up for discussion. I believe that the mem¬ 
bers of the profession are in need of such a journal, and I be¬ 
lieve that there is enough talent and means among the mem¬ 
bers to produce and sustain a paper that shall be equalled by 
few and surpassed by none. I do not think that the Ameri¬ 
can Veterinary Review or the Journal of Comparative 
Veterinary Medicine meets the demands of the profession. 
They do not have that devotion and enthusiasm in veterinary 
medicine and surgery that such papers should have, nor do 
they dwell entirely upon subjects that are of interest to the 
profession generally.” 
Too much truth is unfortunately embodied in the forego¬ 
ing letter regarding the general character of our veterinary 
journals, but as to not dwelling entirely upon veterinary sub¬ 
jects, the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery makes 
no such claim, although offering much of interest and value, 
and well worth its price to veterinarians, but the American 
Veterinary Review plainly insists upon its purely veteri¬ 
nary character, and though a careful reader of its pages for 
several years, 1 cannot recall any matter which has appeared 
