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that is soon to be submitted to Parliament 

 by the Odiham Agriculture Society, 

 who hav^e already made public (and soli- 

 cited subscriptions for the promotion of) 

 their very laudable intention of sending acer- 

 tain number of youths annually to France 

 for Veterinarian Education ; though it 

 perhaps reflects no great degree of credit 

 upon our own nation, that a still more lau- 

 dable plan could not have been adopted, by 

 laying the foundation-stone of such institu- 

 tion in this kingdom ; where, by the means 

 of instruction being local and more exten- 

 sive, the advantages must certainly become 

 the sooner general, than under the restraints 

 of the present proposition. For the very li- 

 mited number (I believe four or six) that 

 they intend sending annually, under the un- 

 certainty of pecuniary contribution from the 

 purses of individuals, affords every reason to 

 suppose, upon the most moderate computa- 

 tion, that it must be at least a century 

 before the good effect of so desirable an im- 

 provement can be universally experienced. 

 But as every step to general reformation must 

 have obstacles of much mamn'tude to sur- 



