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average annual loss of cattle in India by preventible 

 cattle disease of one form and another, at fullj ten 

 million beasts, rouglilj valued at £7,500,000, and 

 subsequent experience and enquiry lias led him to be- 

 lieve that this estimate materially understated the 

 case. 



The Indian climates, varying as these do, appear 

 to be specially favourable to cattle. Every one who 

 has kept cattle here knows that if moderately fed, and 

 given plenty of work and kept away from contagion, 

 they never seem to be sick or sorry, but work on, 

 hardy and healthy, from youth to extreme old age. 

 They are very prolific too. If our poor beasts only 

 had reasonably fair play, the whole empire would 

 swarm with cattle, and cattle able to work the heaviest 

 ploughs, and, in soils and situations where this was 

 necessary or desirable, to plough as deep as you 

 like. 



request to urge a grant of =£1,000, and a yearly allowance (for the 

 present) of about half that sum, to secure the establishment of 

 an institution, which, if a success, will pave the way to an efficient 

 system for bringing cattle epidemics by degrees more and more 

 under control, and for introducing throughout the Bengal Presi- 

 dency improved methods of dealing with stock, both in health and 

 in disease." 



This project received Lord Mayo' s warmest support; it was, in 

 fact, his own idea worked out by the writer. Before the design 

 could be carried out he was taken from us. His successor pro- 

 mised support. The principal of the first College was nominated, 

 the premises even were taken, and the necessary alterations in 

 them commenced, when the then Viceroy changed his mind, 

 started oft: the Principal, Mr. J. B. Hallen (the only man then 

 in India who could have successfully inaugurated this impor- 

 tant work) elsewhere, and " concluded " the project. Ex uno 

 disce omnesl 



