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DINNER TO MR. EDWARD STANLEY. 
On the 5th, the date of my next visit, I found my opinion 
confirmed, of an abscess in the scrotum, which I now opened, 
and gave vent therefrom to a considerable quantity of pus. 
Depurative lotions. The cavity of the abscess fills up rapidly, 
but the tumour of the scrotum continues notwithstanding. 
This caused me to decide on castrating my patient on the side 
on which the hernia had formed. 
On the 27th, not without difficulty, on account of the 
numerous adhesions which had formed, and the infiltrated 
hardened condition of its envelopes, I performed castration. 
From this, I have come to the conclusion that, for the purpose 
of preventing hernia, castration should be practised the 
moment after the reduction. 
In a short time afterwards the animal was able to resume 
his work, being on the fair road of recovery from the castra- 
tion, and of perfect re-establishment after the hernia, and the 
intestinal injuries with which it was complicated. Bee. de 
Med. Vet . d'Aout , 1 853. 
PROCREATION OE THE SEXES IN THE OX SPECIES, 
'ACCORDING TO WILL. 
After having made many experiments M. Chevalier Peers 
has had his attention arrested by the work of a Dutch author, 
put into his hands by one of his friends of Zealand. The 
means recommended, of which M. Peers has obtained very 
satisfactory results, during the four years he has put them 
into practice, consist in the presentation of the cow to the 
bull before or after milking. Whereas put to the male before 
milking she brings forth a cow-calf. Whereas, if she be 
milked first and bulled afterwards, she brings a male- calf. 
Moniteur Agricole . 
Home Department. 
DINNER TO MR. EDWARD STANLEY, 
VETERINARY SURGEON, BANBURY. 
{From the Banbury Guardian , October '2Qth , 1853.) 
[This was intended to have been inserted last month.] 
Last Friday evening, a numerous and highly respectable 
dinner party, composed of gentlemen and tradesmen in Ban- 
