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ican and Ontario Colleges who would reflect no credit on their 
alma mater, should they take the remainder of the present cen¬ 
tury to prepare for professional work. The only standard hy 
which men can be correctly judged is what they have accom¬ 
plished. 
I do not like to refer to ray own professional achievements, 
but the coarse and ungentlemanly manner in which I have been 
assailed, demands that a word or two be said on this subject. I 
may say the years that have passed since tny graduation have not 
been spent in idleness. During this time some of my lines of 
work have been pushed far beyond the point attempted to be 
reached in the instruction of either of the colleges in which I 
studied. During the past year I had under my instruction twenty 
young men, who, in point of scholarly attainments, were second 
to no class it has ever been my privilege to meet in a veterinary 
college. Such an interest has been awakened in the profession 
through courses of lectures given at the Agricultural College , to 
students who were desiring instruction in veterinary science, that 
the organization of a special school become a necessity. Such a 
school has been organized with every prospect of success. 
No one knows better than myself that there is yet much to do 
to bring the institution to the degree of excellence that is to be 
desired: and no one knows better the fact that it has many and 
important advantages, that give ample promise of great good. T 
have doubtless not done so much as might have been accomplished 
by some other member of the profession, but to have made this 
betrinnins in a State the live stock interest of which is about dou- 
ble that of all the New England States put together, and where 
there was not the nucleus of a profession to start from, is a work 
that has for me the elements of encouragement, to say the least. 
I have a personal acquaintance with nearly every prominent 
breeder in the State; have mingled with them in their conven¬ 
tions and frequently given addresses before them. The rapidity 
with which Iowa has come to the front rank as a stock-growing 
State, shows these men to be intelligent and energetic. If I am 
the professional impostor that “ these mine accusers ” would have 
the world believe me, then they pay a high compliment to my 
