EDITORIAL. 
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The practical examination is carried along all the year round at the 
attendance to hospital practice and to the free clinics. 
We have received other communications relating to the subject 
of Veterinary Education, which will be printed in our next. 
PRELIMINARY EDUCATION. 
The necessity of the steps discussed by the Veterinary Schools of 
this continent, relating specially to a preliminary examination before 
matriculating to enter a school, is well illustrated by the letter which we 
publish to-day under the heading “ Knocking at the Wrong Door.” 
The manner in which the letter is written, its style, and all its orthography, 
show enough how unfit the applicant is for the honorable degree he 
seems so anxious to obtain. This letter was directed to the Principal of 
the Montreal Veterinary College—how mistaken the applicant was ? 
And it is not the first one which has been brought to our notice; our 
position at the American Veterinary College has been the means of re¬ 
ceiving many, similar to that one, and we publish it to-day to show how 
wrong and ignorant people, generally speaking, are, of the requirements 
for veterinary education. Rather than thinking to enter a grand pro¬ 
fession like ours, the ambitious candidate who uvont stand fore the meanes , 
had better turn his attention to something else which will not require 
three difrent schools from, difernt graduats. 
Let all schools on the continent establish the requirements already 
adopted in the United States, and ignorant people will soon learn that 
before attempting to be honored with the'trust of caring for our domestic 
animals they must take advantage of one of the greatest institutions of 
our country, viz.: free public preliminary education. 
CASTRATION OF CRIPTORCHIDS. 
The Veterinary journal brings us in his advertising columns that of 
Prof. (?) T. C. Miles, who for some time back has been trying to bring 
himself to the notice of the American people for what he calls his method 
of operating on Rigling. We are somewhat surprised at the reading of 
the certificates and letters which the Prof. (?) published, some of which, 
emanating from American veterinary authorities, stated that to them the 
