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what veterinary science means and how essential and important 
its different brandies and specialties are to agriculture, to political 
and social economy, it seems to me that we will then have 
succeeded in doing away with all these drawbacks, and that 
veterinary education will have made a powerful go-a-head step- 
And now how are we to ask from the press her powerful assistance? 
and to what special part of it are we going to apply ? I may say 
that any will answer, that scientific columns would certainly be a 
good means, but that I believe that papers whose subjects are 
more or less connected with our specialty ought to be preferred. 
Agricultural papers therefore will, in my estimation, be the ones 
through which we may attain our object. There is, however, I 
believe, some distinction to be made in the writings which ought 
to find their way into these papers. Veterinary medicine has wide 
range, the connective links of its different branches are found in 
various specialties, all of which are interesting to the agriculturist, 
to the stock raiser; here, for instance, it is chemistry, there 
botany, here zootechnie and hygiene, there general practice and 
sanitary medicine, without forgetting those important branches, 
shoeing and laws of warranty, and from them I conclude that 
they are the subjects which we must take as means of education 
of our people. It is not—and here, Mr. President, 1 hope the 
following will not be taken in any other light than it is intended, 
in other words, far from me the slightest idea of making any 
personal remarks, or of throwing blame on what some may 
consider proper and professional—but I say it is not the gratu¬ 
itous advice which may be found filling up column after column 
of the pages of some of our best papers by which we will educate 
the people on veterinary science. Yes, I not only consider 
that road an improper one but as one injurious to the profession. 
Those amongst us who have found time to throw away in reading 
the many questions and answers which are printed, know as well 
as I do how useless, how worthless, many of them are. 
We know that it is remunerative, we know that it pays, but 
we are positive that it does no good to the veterinary profession. 
You will be told, “If I do not take it a quack will, and while I do 
not sanction it entirely, I think by keeping it away from the 
