PREFATORY NOTE.

      This is the first number of a Journal which, it is hoped, in the interests of
good animal husbandry in India, will grow and prosper.

      That there is need for such a journal there is no doubt, and all will agree that
there is no lack of material if workers will realize the importance of preparing and
submitting suitable original matter for publication whenever an opportunity
arises.

      The aim of the journal should be to encourage practical investigation of
economic value. Abstruse articles on research, which may or may not prove to
be of practical importance, are not what is most required. Short notes of actual
experiences and clinical observations of outbreaks of disease met with in field work
are often most valuable, and the habit of recording and publishing their expe-
riences in a precise form, accompanied where possible by photographs or drawings,
is a most important one for all professional men to cultivate, so that their work
may not be lost. May we hope that the lack of sustained support, which has
caused the eventual disappearance from publication of former attempts to produce
similar journals in India, will not be our experience in this case ?

      The " Indian Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry " is to
appear quarterly on the 1st of March, June, September and December each year.
Matter for publication should be received at the office of the Imperial Council of
Agricultural Research not less than three months previous to the date of publication.
If there are illustrations to be published with an article, these should be received
two weeks earlier still if uncoloured, and at least a month earlier if coloured.

      The object of the Journal is to serve as a medium for the dissemination of
scientific knowledge and for the interchange of ideas between workers engaged in
research and those employed in the field, and the co-operation of every officer
engaged in Veterinary or Animal husbandry work throughout India, towards this
end, is earnestly solicited.

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