xxs Outlines of a Plan for establishing^ ^c. 



1783, at Charenton near Paris, and afterwards removed 

 to Rambouillet, and placed under the care of the cele- 

 brated Daubenton, and is continued to this day ; a full proof 

 that great benefit has been derived from it» At this place, 

 the breeds of various kinds of good cattle are kept pure, 

 particularly of fine wooUed sheep, whence farmers from every 

 part of the kingdom are supplied upon moderate terms, a 

 regulation, from which it is evident the greatest advantages 

 must be derived to the community at large, 



"A Veterinary School is connected with the farm, and four 

 other professorships established, two for rural ceconomy, one> 

 for anatomy, and another for chymistry. There is a spacious, 

 apartment for dissecting animals, a large cabinet, where the 

 most interesting parts of all domestic animals are preserv^ed, 

 and also of such parts of their bodies, that mark the effect of 

 visible distempers. This, with a similar one near Lyons, is 

 kept up, at the moderate expencc of 60,000 livres, (2600 

 pounds sterling). 



There are at present, about one hundred pupils from dif- 

 ferent parts of the kingdom, as well as from every country 

 in Europe, except England ; a strange exception, considering 

 how grossly ignorant our farriers are." — Travels by A. Toung' 

 in France^ in 1787-8-9^ pa^e 67. Lond, 1792. 



The following premiums were offered by the society in the 

 year 1791, a short time previously to the suspension of their 

 regular meetings. A part of them had been previously offered 

 at different periods. They are now published with a view of 

 calling the attention of farmers to the v^arious important sub- 

 jects noticed in them, and though the society do not deem 

 themselves bound by the prizes offered in the list, in conse- 

 quence of the subjects which have been proposed in that 

 immediately following, yet they will always be happy in an 

 opportunity of distinguishing, by some honorable mark, 

 the enterprizing cultivator, who successfully attempts to im- 

 ■^rove the agricultvLre of his countrv. 



