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EDITORIAL. 
pests will be committed to the hands of men educated to know 
and competent to direct in the matters in hand. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION IN AMERICA. 
The various questions relating to veterinary education which 
were agitated at the meeting of the Ohio State Veterinary Med¬ 
ical Association, and to which the attention of our readers was 
called in our last issue, seem to have been overlooked by our 
friends. Our call for suggestions and opinions on this important 
subject has, therefore, quite failed to receive from our fellow 
veterinarians the attention it deserves. We have asked for an 
expression of opinion, and have offered the hospitality of our 
columns to all who might feel inclined to occupy them, and still 
our invitation is quite without response. We have said that the 
subjects discussed deserve close attention, and an evidence of this 
is found in the remarks that are made in the best agricultural 
publication of the country. 
The National Live Stock Journal , in an editorial on October 
20th, publishes an excellent article ou this question, which well 
merits the attention of all interested persons. The questions of 
the veterinary calling, veterinary colleges, and veterinary educa¬ 
tion is one which concerns every American, and in which every 
practitioner is interested, and any opinion on so important a sub¬ 
ject should meet with careful consideration. Veterinary colleges 
are becoming plentiful in the United States, but it must not be 
forgotten that not quantity, but quality, is the thing needed. 
Veterinary education may be good and thorough in one, but de¬ 
ficient in another, as in other departments of science. A regular 
and proper standard is the desideratum in the case/and counsel 
and suggestions from all will be necessary to secure the most ad¬ 
vantageous results to all. As remarked by our contemporary, 
“ Millions are annually involved in a satisfactory veterinary ser¬ 
vice, and in view of the general demand for more efficient and 
national contagious-diseases legislation, the entire subject is partic¬ 
ularly important at this time.” Once again we would ask for the 
opinions of our colleagues on the three suggestions involved in the 
letter of Dr. W. C. Fair, published in our November number. 
