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disposed to run no risk, but at all hazards reimburse ourselves — 
the moment we saw our property depreciated by disease below the 
amount of insurance, we should send for such medical — save the 
mark! — assistance, in order that we might make certain of the 
patient dying, and of ourselves being paid for it. For it to be pro- 
perly treated, and to recover in an emaciated weakly condition, 
would never suit our book of calculation. 
To the assured we would say, if you have any regard for the 
lives of your cattle — really entertain a desire to preserve them, 
send for the best veterinary advice within your reach. The counsel 
of a man unskilful or ignorant is nothing else but destruction to 
the patient. 
Lastly, to every country veterinary practitioner we would say, 
in your attendance upon cattle, sheep, &c. be as moderate as you 
can in your charges. Consider that the price of a cow or a sheep 
is something very much below that of a horse of equal grade in 
the scale of quality ; and again, consider that farmers in these days 
of squeeze and retrenchment on the part of their landlords are 
not making the money they were in the good old times when the 
strong ale cask stood in the cellar offering its welcome tap to 
every comer to the farm. The day is fast approaching for even 
farmers — the last to acknowledge our art — to begin to see that it 
is their interest to have the advice of veterinarians in preference 
to that of cowleeches and farriers ; and, in order to secure their 
timid custom, veterinarians have but to bear in mind that they 
are, neither in disposition nor in pocket, prepared to pay the same 
price as gentlemen in more easy circumstances. 
MISCELLANEA. 
The Application of Gas-Licht to the Singeing of 
Horses. 
We are informed that it has recently occurred to the stud-groom 
of a celebrated sportsman, whose stables are lit by gas, that the gas- 
light might be made subservient to the purpose of singeing his 
horses; and that, to carry his project into effect, he has had made 
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