BREEDING OF HYBRIDS. 
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MAL-PRACTICE IN THE EXTRACTION OF A 
CALF. 
By the Same. 
The following case is by no means a rare one in my practice ; 
and often I am called to cases where much valuable time 
has been lost by “ knowing ones” interfering ; for had any 
one acquainted with his profession been called in at an early 
period in this instance, soon after the escape of the water, 
and before violent straining had come on, there is not a 
shadow of a doubt but that this cow would have been early 
delivered and her life saved. 
On the 25th of Feb. 1854, I was called up at night to 
see a cow “ that could not calve,” the property of Mr. 
Reddrop, of Hanley Park. A man who pretended to some 
knowledge in these matters, had been with the animal the 
greater part of the day, but he could not remove the calf, 
and he stated his belief that it was impossible for any one 
else to do so. When I arrived I found my patient lying all 
at length on the ground, and she did not even lift her head 
once from it whilst I was with her. I ordered her some 
brandy to rouse the vital powers, and on examination I per- 
ceived that one of the fore legs had ignorantly been cut off 
at the shoulder joint. The fore legs had been first presented 
with the head far back under the side. In ten minutes, by 
careful manipulation I got the calf away. Whilst removing 
it, the cow had only very slight labour pains, and she died in 
an hour or so afterwards. 
ON THE BREEDING OF HYBRIDS. 
By Thomas Gregory, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Sir, — A bitch, the produce of a cross between a sheep-dog 
and a vixen fox , belonging to Mr. Maddox of Bransbridge, five 
miles from this town, was sent last spring or summer to 
London for sale, I believe at TattersalPs. She was also ad- 
vertised in Bell's Life for this purpose ; but not finding a 
purchaser in town, she was sent to, and remained sometime 
at, Maidstone, and not being sold, was taken home and tied 
up in her old kennel. For about five or six weeks (I cannot 
give the exact date), her owner, to his great astonishment, on 
