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MR. CHERRY’S LECTURE AT 
hand, should such sanitary precautions be no more heeded than the 
loud and sad cries for sanitary reforms in our large and populous 
towns have been, we may look for the establishment of a new and 
destructive epidemic devastating our flocks as pleuro-pneumonia 
has already devastated our herds; and we shall be compelled 
without delay to have recourse to what in the hands of French 
veterinarians has proved so successful, viz. inoculation of our 
sheep, while young, for the pox ; the same as children used to be 
inoculated for small-pox. To the question, Would vaccination 
answer for sheep] we believe we may answer, unhesitatingly, No! 
— It has been tried and has failed. But more of this anon. 
With equal pride and pleasure do we point the attention of our 
readers to the report of proceedings at the Farmers’ Club, on the 
4th of the past month, whereof an account is extracted from the 
Mark Lane Express into our present Number. It was an occa- 
sion on which we felt pleasure, because we found ourselves in the 
company of the professors of that science to which the veterinary 
art in our own country owes its birth, to which it is on one side by 
nature closely allied, and with the practitioners of which there ap- 
peared every disposition, on the occasion in question, that we should, 
as in former days, return into scientific and amicable association. 
It was an occasion on which we felt pride, because.one of our own 
body was to be “ the lion” of the meeting ; and that feeling was 
not a little enhanced when, as the issue shewed, the lecturer was 
found to have acquitted himself in a manner which, while it 
reflected every credit upon himself, reverberated no little of that 
credit upon the corporate body from which he emanated. 
The history of the affair is shortly this : — So long ago as June 
last Mr. Arthur Cherry made a request to the President of the 
Farmers’ Club, Fisher Hobbs, Esq., to be permitted to deliver 
a lecture or two at the meetings of the Club, a request that was 
received with kindly feelings by the Committee, and the result 
was, an arrangement with Mr. Cherry for the delivery of three lec- 
tures, the first to be given on the 4th of October. “ The Diseases 
of Cattle” being the subject announced upon the members’ cards of 
notice of the meeting, there was, naturally enough, evidently an 
