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weight of his purse. He might in the country grow rich, 
and with pleasure contemplate a healthy herd. The milk 
could be sent by rail to London. From the stations, it 
could easily be distributed over the town by means of those 
light carts which the vast majority of milkmen keep at the 
present time. The machinery is therefore ready ; and were 
the law universal, serving all alike, very probably there are 
few cowkeepers who would object to the change. 
Only there is one provision which must not be overlooked. 
The men are poor. Most have hired buildings, erected sheds, 
and taken long leases, looking forward to years of undis- 
puted possession. The law of the land has approved their 
acts. If that law is now to be suddenly changed, these poor 
men must be compensated for any loss the alteration would 
occasion. The money required to do this could not be great. 
No land or material could in London be valueless ; while 
the sums, awarded to the present occupants, would enable 
them to remove with comparative ease. 
This single amendment in the custom of the present gene- 
ration would do much to purify the London flesh-markets. 
Small animals would not generally pay for any great risk 
incurred ; nor, is the temptation to dishonesty so great, 
when a pig or sheep dies, as when a cow falls. A poor man 
may have with difficulty scraped together the pounds required 
to purchase a prime milker. He brings her home ; but also 
into danger. New in-comers are proverbially the most ex- 
posed in every London shed. Say the new purchase dies. Is 
it not a very great temptation for a poor man to view the loss 
of so much hard cash, and yet refuse to adopt the ready re- 
course, by which a portion of the money could be saved to 
him ? 
GLANDERS, AND THE AUTHORITIES OF CITIES 
AND TOWNS IN IRELAND. 
By R. H. Dyer, M.R.C.Y.S., Waterford. 
It may not be out of place to ask you to insert in your 
journal, the following short history of a case which came 
under my especial notice during the year 1855. 
A brown pony arrived from England, suffering with catar- 
rhal symptoms, which were accompanied with tumefaction 
of the salivary glands. He only partially recovered, as a 
