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“ a greater one still” — MEDICINE ; with her handmaids, CHE- 
MISTRY and BOTANY. Ill fact, veterinary science, in its broadest 
scope, is clearly divisible into two large or principal compartments, 
one medical , the other agricultural ; in the latter of which it 
is, on a more extended scale than can strictly be called veterinary, 
Mr. Karkeek has won his laurels. And this suggests to us, had the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons any notion of revising their 
“ arms,” what appears to our mind an excellently appropriate 
heraldic composition, viz. a shield, supported on the right by 
Esculapius, on the left by Ceres, with quarterings of some such 
devices as an ox, a dog, a sheep, and a pig, and surmounted by a 
horse in a galloping or vaulting attitude, with a motto expressive 
of the origin of veterinary science, as the offspring of the union of 
Ceres with Esculapius, or of Agriculture and Medicine. 
But our pen is playing truant — revenons a nos moutons . — The 
part of the “ Report” before us which more immediately concerns 
us, and w'hich, on that account, we are about to take the liberty 
to transcribe, not doubting that our readers, when they come to 
peruse it, will thank us for having so done, is 
“ THE BREEDS OF SHEEP, CATTLE, HORSES, AND PIGS, IN 
CORNWALL. 
SHEEP. 
Mr. Karkeek informs us, — 
“ In very few counties has so complete an alteration taken 
place in the character of sheep as in Cornwall within the last fifty 
years. The table of Mr. Luccock, in 1800, assigns to Cornwall 
203,000 shoi't-woolled sheep, producing 3382 packs of wool ; while 
that of Mr. Hubbard, in 1828, makes no mention of the number 
of sheep, but of 5920 packs of long wool being yielded by the 
Cornish flocks. The county attributes this improvement chiefly to 
the exertions of Mr. Peters, who commenced as a flock-master in 
1790, when he introduced, to use his own expression, 1 a waggon 
load of ewes and a ram’ of the improved Leicesters, and continued 
crossing this blood with the native breed up to the period of Wor- 
gan’s survey in 1810. The Rev. R. Walker and Mr. Rodd also 
introduced some rams of this blood about this time (the produce 
being sold to the farmers for the improvement of their flocks), the 
effect of which may be imagined from Mr. Worgan’s description, 
‘ that we had as fine a breed of sheep as any county in England.’ 
About this period (1810) Mr. Peters introduced two rams from a 
Mr. Kimber’s flock, in the north of Gloucester, who was a pupil 
of Mr. Bakewell, and who had, by mixing the new Leicester blood 
with the Cotswolds, become eminent as a breeder in that neigh- 
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