Mism anagemen t. 



mortality will take place in tlie departments re- 

 ferred to. Owners may still complain about the 

 disparity between profits and expenses. Efficient 

 veterinary surgeons (and there are men in the 

 body of practitioners as valuable in their calling 

 as viewers are in theirs), desirous of establishing 

 necessary and profitable reformation in depart- 

 ments essentially their own, lose interest, and 

 weary in well-doing after repeated insults of the 

 kind referred to are heaped upon them. They are 

 not allowed a word in explanation, and at length 

 retire in disgust, and the places are filled by auto- 

 matons mere machines who generally occupy 

 such posts with greater satisfaction to those who 

 fill up the executive and revel in the exercise of 

 despotic power. 



It is not only in reference to colliery animals 

 where mismanagement occurs. We need but 

 turn our attention to the system pursued in our 

 large town and farm stables ; and cattle and sheep 

 also are found to participate in the general results. 

 Veterinary surgeons in some districts can 

 testify to the bulk of their cases being those 

 which arise from indigestion, and the insurance 

 papers of many a defunct society would afford 

 doleful tales of sudden death from the same states, 

 causing rupture of the stomach, intestines, or 

 diaphragm, calculi (or stones), and incurable 

 diabetes running into farcy and glanders. 



Farmers are fully conversant with similar 

 results also, which find an origin in the cheap 



