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feeding and care of stock, draining, and its influence in preventing 
diseases, &c., &c.; articles that would present to them in a clear, 
concise manner the principles that underlie the breeding and 
proper management of stock, as well also as the best means of 
preventing outbreaks of enzootic or epizootic diseases. 
I expect to meet with some opposition to this proposed course, 
and to be told that this is a veterinary and not an agricultural 
paper. 
This, in a limited sense, is true. It is a veterinary journal 
essentially. But shall we leave no room for the discussion of 
those questions that affect alike the veterinarian, the farmer, and 
the stock-raiser ? 
I think not. An occasional contribution of the kind above 
suggested cannot detract at all from the value of the Review to 
members of the profession, while it will very materially enhance 
its value in the eyes of the owners of the animals that come under 
our care. There is always a danger that a journal like this will 
become too exclusively “ scientific,” deal too much with abstract 
study, and thus, to a certain extent, lose its interest for the busy 
practitioner. It may be well enough for the student; it grows 
tedious to the man who is busy with every-day practice. 
What we want, and exactly what we want, is a variety. If the 
common earthworm is implicated in the spread or development of 
enzootic outbreaks of anthrax, as has been proven by close and 
careful investigations, we want to know it. If there is a special 
agent that is better than any or all others in the treatment of cer¬ 
tain forms of disease, we want to know it. If there are particu¬ 
lar plants that cause such diseases as abortion or “ garget ” in cat¬ 
tle, both the veterinarian and the stock-owner are interested in 
knowing what it or they are. If special forms of diseases exist 
on peculiar soils, it is the duty of the veterinarian, through his 
paper, to so instruct the owner that by a proper treatment of these 
soils such diseases may be entirely prevented, or rendered less 
frequent in their outbreaks. The extensive trade in live stock be¬ 
tween different parts of our own country and with foreign nations 
also, makes it imperative for the veterinarian to know the actual 
condition of that trade, its obstacles, and the best and quickest 
