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EDITORIAL. 
Unfortunately, however, the accusation of incompetency is not the 
only objection urged in some of these cases, for we have received 
information of at least one case in which gross neglect of duty is 
alleged as the reason for removal from office. This seems to be 
a case in which everybody is to blame, including the officials who 
originally granted the appointment to the incompetent veteri¬ 
narian ; but the incompetent himself, who could not be ignorant 
of his own unfitness, and who, if he could not bring himself to 
the manliness of declining the office, might at least, after his ac¬ 
ceptance of the position, have taken some pains to improve his 
knowledge and his practical adaptation to the place, which he 
does not seem to have done. 
Such a state of things seems to indicate that of all who were 
on the ground not one among them had any realizing sense of 
the importance of the requirements which qualify a man for the 
office of State Veterinarian. It is not only a simple college edu¬ 
cation, and a degree obtained from it, that equips a man for such 
a (trust. There are special accomplishments and requisites that 
one must possess. He must be a good diagnostician of the vari¬ 
ous forms which are assumed by some of the contagious diseases. 
He must understand that symptoms, causes, lesions, and princi¬ 
pally the prophylactic treatment of sanitary science, is a branch 
of knowledge too profound and comprehensive to be well appre¬ 
ciated and mastered by a mere novice, such as a young graduate. 
But aside from this, there is a duty which imposes itself upon 
veterinary teachers. It is just this branch of sanitary veterinary 
medicine which is almost entirely ignored in our veterinary col¬ 
leges, and entirely overlooked in most of them, while, probably, 
it forms in others but a small portion of the curriculum. This is 
a great error, and a great wrong to their graduates, and it is high 
time for them to try to repair the harm they have done, and to 
avoid it in the future. 
Veterinary Troubles in Colorado—Removal of Dr. 
Faville—Appointment of Dr. A. Martins. —One of our 
Western exchanges informs us of the appointment of Dr. A. 
Martins as State Veterinarian of Colorado, and we are informed 
that the appointment implies the nomination of the recipient to 
