AMATEUR VETS 23 



Sheep. — " The Sheep Breeder's Guide." 



Pigs. — Garrett's " Practical Pig-keeper." 



Z?^^^.— "The Diseases of Dogs," by H. Dalziel. 



Poultry. — " Pheasants, Turkeys, and Geese," 

 by W. Cook; also "Profitable Poultry-keeping," 

 by F. Mackenzie. 



Goats.—'' Book of the Goat," by Pegler ; " The 

 Case for the Goat," by " Home-Counties." 



Amongst well-known foreign writers, these 

 names deserve praise : Champetier, Lechlainche, 

 Dupont, Boucher, Schlieben — he wrote the 

 " Horse of Antiquity " — Bayer, Paalzow, Haare, 

 Captain Hube, Carl von Schmidt. In fact the 

 amateur vet has the choice of cultivating his 

 mind by reading the wisdom of thousands of good 

 authors on the Veterinary Art. 



The authors who filled the gap between Xeno- 

 phon and the time when the Royal Veterinary 

 College was founded, are indeed legion. It is 

 a tremendous gap indeed ! It would be tedious 

 to give more than these already mentioned few 

 sample quotations illustrating Greek, Roman, and 

 mediaeval writers. Let us think also of the store 

 of knowledge which perished when Carthage was 

 burnt ; for we may feel sure that the slim Cartha- 

 ginians were active horsemen, or they would not 

 have killed so many Romans under Hannibal, 

 Hamilcar, and other long forgotten cavalry leaders. 

 Therefore we may conclude that the Carthaginians 

 wrote on this subject, and their works all perished, 

 unfortunately for us. 



It is obvious from the above that some institu- 

 tion was necessary to establish equine knowledge 



