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London. A cheap food for horses is one of the great de- 
siderata of English agriculture, and would tend more than 
almost anything we know to diminish the cost of production, 
and to set free a large surplus for the consumption of man. 
Better far that we should import cheap horse-food and cattle- 
food than cheap and inferior grain as human food, thus 
enabling us to reserve the better qualities of grain now con- 
sumed by our horses to give bone and muscle to our agricul- 
tural population. 
PROFESSIONAL MEMS. 
The Emperor of Austria, attaching particular interest to 
the Agricultural Exhibition of Paris, has specially appointed 
M. Roell, the Director of the Veterinary School at Vienna, to 
attend it, and send in a report of whatever comes under his 
observation. 
In consequence of the extension of the murrain among 
cattle in Poland, a sanitary committee of twelve members, 
one of whom is a veterinary surgeon of eminence, has been 
appointed to each of the five governments. They are ordered 
to adopt the most active measures to investigate causes, and 
to apply remedies . — Daily press. 
VETERINARY COLLEGE AT NEW YORK, U.S. 
A bill has been introduced in the New York legislature 
to incorporate the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons 
of the City of New York. The corporators are William 
Cooper, H. Williams, M.D., W. Lockhart, Thomas D. 
Andrews, M.D., J. Ogle, M.D., T. Nortram, C. C. Grice, 
and P. Green. The object is to promote veterinary science 
and instruction in the department of learning connected 
therewith. It allows them to hold and convey real estate 
to the amount of 100,000 dollars. It gives power to the 
trustees to confer the degree of V.S. (Veterinary Surgeon) 
on any man of the age of twenty-one years, who may have 
studied three years with some veterinary surgeon duly 
licensed, and have attended two complete courses of lectures, 
one of which shall have been delivered by the professors of 
the said college . — New York Daily Times. 
