CHAP. II.] YOUNG CATTLE, HOW SPOILED. 457 



of each other, that they differ but in name for 

 situation, in treatment nothing. Higher bred cattle 

 are subjected to the same disadvantages in most 

 breeding studs, in which the breeders prefer to de- 

 rive their stock from parents which may have been 

 successful at winning three-year old stakes, or pro- 

 bably strained every muscle, bone, and tendon 

 whilst yet yearlings. We owe to the late Sir T. 

 C. Bunbury, of Bildeston, the introduction of this 

 practice on a large scale, which is so evidently harm- 

 ful to the rising generation — of speedy horses. 



Lameness is universally the symptom that de- 

 notes disordered limb ; it is the only one percept- 

 ible for some time, until its continuance throws out 

 some appearance on the surface ; and that inquirer 

 who can soonest ascertain its true seat is most 

 likely to find the cause, and to effect a cure. For 

 instance, lameness occasioned by disordered bone, 

 as in ring-bone and bone-spavin, is almost univer- 

 sally ascribed by the stable-men and humble prac- 

 titioners to strain in the stifle, in the shoulder, or 

 the whirlbone ; whereby so much valuable time is 

 lost in applying the proposed remedies at the wrong 

 place, that those two disorders in particular make 

 head almost irremediably before the true seat of ail- 

 ment is ascertained : and we not only postpone ap- 

 plying the remedies to the proper places, but at- 

 tempt to cure a spot where no ailment exists. The 

 same species of blunder is propagated when a dis- 

 ease happens to the foot, and the precise cause 

 thereof, even when well known to those employed 



