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If you have not seen melanosis, by going over the livery 
stables and auctions at either Presidency, you will be sure 
to find some cases. The tumours, when they do ulcerate, 
do so by sinus opening, which is different to the open ulcer 
of bursautee cases, which you will also be sure to see. 
Now, into the cure of farcy I am not going to enter; it is 
much better to try to prevent it. You will be told that 
“ stud bred horses are more liable to this kind of bursautee 
than others.” This is not true. Recollect, the studs are 
large establishments, in which endeavours are made to make 
them self-supporting . Mistaken economy caused the stables to 
be made too small, and not well constructed as to ventilation, 
though this has been remedied.' Bad management will 
sometimes occur, and in cavalry corps too ; and. then, with 
a filthy stable, you will have farcy (and glanders too) : call 
it “ malignant bursautee,” or what you please, you cannot 
in this w T ay change the characteristics of the disease. 
AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
By M.R.C.V.S. 
The science of Agriculture embraces two great objects : 
the production of vegetable and the production of animal food. 
But neither in the one case nor the other will the produce 
uniformly be of a normal or healthy nature. This liability 
to anormality or unhealthiness, or disease, must be checked 
or prevented, or the state itself must be removed — be cured. 
For these purposes, chemistry and medicine are called in : 
while the one furnishes the remedy to the soil or the plant, 
the other supplies a prevention or curative remedy for the 
disease in the animal. Agricultural chemists will supply the 
first ; Veterinary surgeons must be sent to for the last : and 
that our science can aid, and materially aid, the farmer and 
grazier, we think agricultural statistics will unanswerably 
demonstrate. There has been no fault — there can be no 
fault — found with Veterinary science ; the fault has lain with 
those who professed it — professed it indeed, but never learnt 
to pi'actise it. And this, w T e say, it is that has brought the 
Veterinary art into, if not disrepute, at least into too little 
repute among agriculturists. A tenant farmer is not a man 
who can afford to throw away his money. No! he must have 
