Mismanagement. 



is the " red-tape," for the exercise of -which 

 I presume owners who know it not pay rather 

 dearly, 



It has been known that reports detailing the 

 existence of glaring evils easily remedied by a 

 change of system, requiring no extra outlay, but 

 insuring a highly profitable investment, drawn up 

 by able men veterinary surgeons who have 

 studied these matters for years and practised them 

 successfully, and who, after sending them to head- 

 quarters by desire, have been treated con- 

 temptuously such men have been told, "your 

 information is only a parcel of figures" or after 

 being summoned to the office of the " viewer," 

 "you had better not interfere in such matters; things 

 have gone along very well hitherto, and no com- 

 plaint has been made from above ; you receive your 

 salary, and it will be advisable that you should not 

 report these things beyond myself." 



Existing affairs are permitted to go on as before, 

 but the information thus obtained is put aside, in 

 order to be applied as perfectly original matter 

 at a time when the proper owner is not present 

 to identify it. 



A few years ago, in a paper read before a 

 certain farmers' club, I gave the details of a 

 system of feeding colliery horses which had been 

 successfully carried on by the resident veterinary 

 surgeon some years, and resulted in the annual 

 saving of hundreds of pounds. 



The local newspapers gave full reports, the 



