EDITORIAL. 
203 
NATIONAL CATTLE COMMISSION. 
We extract from one of our daily papers a notice giving in¬ 
formation of the establishment of a National Cattle Commission 
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
In the Commission will be found the names of Prof. Law and 
Dr. E. T. Thayer, both of whom are familiar to the people at 
large, and are well known to the profession. Both have been 
engaged in the work of lighting the invasion of contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, and as the Commission is reported to especially have 
in view this form of disease, we may look for some good work in 
that direction. 
Dr. C. P. Lyman, as an officer of the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, Prof. Law and Dr. E. F. Thayer, as Commissioners of the 
Secretary of the Treasury—with such men as appointees of the 
General Government, who will not accept this as evidence of the 
immense progress that veterinary medicine has made in the Uni¬ 
ted States within the last few years. 
VETERINARIAN WANTED. 
We publish to-day a letter from a gentleman in Pennsylvania, 
asking to have recommended to him a veterinary surgeon to be¬ 
gin practice in Pittsburg. At the same time the letter was sent 
to the Turf \ Field and Farm , who kindly referred it to us, we 
had also received one from the same person. 
This is but one of many such which we receive, and serves 
as another indication of the growing estimation in which educated 
veterinarians are held. No doubt Pittsburg, like many other 
cities in the Union, has some practitioners of more or less ability, 
but the day has come when these parties will no more answer, 
and when educated veterinary surgeons will be the only ones who 
will find occupation and command the confidence of the people. 
We hope some young graduate will take notice of the letter and 
embrace the good opportunity. The Review is the best medium 
for such kind of advertisements, and we will hereafter publish 
