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executive was jealous of the honour given, and 

 immediately took the feeding into their own 

 hands. 



On another occasion Mr. Hunting, M.R.C.V.S., 

 attended the Newcastle Farmers' Club, in 

 obedience to a request, to detail the system which 

 he had carried out successfully both as to the 

 saving of expenditure and preventing mortality. 

 The usual feeling of malice and jealousy prevailed 

 here also, for some unknown person forwarded a 

 parcel of hay-seeds and rubbish to the chairman, 

 with the statement that the sample was taken 

 from the kind of provender which Mr. Hunting 

 used, and was about to recommend to the meeting. 



Such is the treatment with which professional 

 men are met upon some of the extensive colliery 

 estates of Britain. Instructions received from 

 " head-quarters" point out the necessity for sur- 

 veillance over the provender, mode of feeding, 

 work, &c., by the veterinary -surgeon ; but to de- 

 tect an error and point it out as required, 

 although an enormous saving would accrue from 

 a change, is to render him odious in the eyes of 

 despotism. If he wishes to hold his appoint- 

 ment, it must be by the sacrifice of conscientious 

 duty, an assumed blindness to, and perfect silence 

 upon, such topics. If he persists in his course, 

 the results are known only to himself. 



While this treatment is permitted, it is not 

 very likely that great improvements, or the 

 avoidance of unnecessary expenditure, waste, and 



