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everything else is raised, and by its improvement the whole of 

 life becomes progressive." 



On the Salt best adapted for Dairy purposes. 

 Long a question among dairy farmers, and fanciful prejudices 

 exist regarding it. Bay salt, long supposed the best. This is 

 produced in Spain by evaporation of sea- water let into shallow 

 ponds at high tide. Its crystals are of considerable size, and of 

 a brownish color. It is a very pure salt, in spite of its color, and 

 contains very little of the magnesiau compounds of sea.] water, 

 Salt containing chloride of magnesium and sulphate of magnesia, 

 contains also much water, say 3 per cent of the chloride and 7 to 

 8 per cent of water, leaving only 89 to 90 per cent of pure salt. 

 This will not answer for the dairy. 



The Veterinary College 



Is conducted by Prof Dick, with the assistance of Dr. George 

 Wilson and Messrs. Barlow, Dun and Worthington. The curri- 

 culum (circus) embraces the principles and practices of veteri- 

 nary medicine and surgery, with anatomy, physiology and de- 

 monstrations, chemistry, materia medica, and dietetics, and the 

 general management of domesticated animals. 



Students have the advantage of assisting in an extensive prac- 

 tice, and of performing the different operati >ns which most fre- 

 quently occur. 



Attendance upon two courses is required before a student is 

 taken upon trial for diploma. The examinations are conducted 

 by Prof. Goodsin and the leading members of the medical faculty, 

 and the graduates of the college are eligible for appointments as 

 veterinary surgeons in her Majesty's service and that of the East 

 India Company. 



[Highland and Agricultural Society. January, 1855. Extract by H. Meigs.] 



REAPERS. 



Jl research for the original contrivance for reaping. 

 Pliny the elder, who was born in A. D. 23, 1832 years ago, 

 gives a description of a reaper which was in use in Gaul (France) 



