IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE. 
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to happen in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the farmer went 
to the Members for the Riding with the following bill : — 
To advice, journeys, and medicines of Mr. , my 
own veterinary surgeon ..... £25 0 0 
To journey and advice of Professor * of the Vete- 
rinary College, as per advice of my landlord . 25 0 0 
To prime cost of 80 dairy cows at £20 each . . 1600 0 0 
Total loss of cattle destroyed by advice of veteri- 
narians £1650 0 0 
N.B. Received very politely by the Members; sorrow expressed 
for my losses ; received intimation that the best thing I could 
do would be to put my own shoulder to the wheel !!! 
An intelligent artisan, manufacturer of my last Newmarket 
corderoys, said he thought he would, in the end, have to pay dear 
for his cheap foreign spread. 
I have not been permanently resident in England ; but I appeal 
to my professional brethren of my own standing, whether or not 
epidemic disease among cattle and sheep has been less frequent 
with the improvement in agricultural economy, and whether or 
not less liberal management would not tend to more frequent 
occurrence of epidemic disease. 
I should be sorry to see any unnecessary restrictions on the 
supply of food ; but in professionally giving advice, we are bound 
to look to the ultimate result. I will admit the advantages of free 
trade to the fullest extent of the principles contended for : in prac- 
tice they have in other instances been found inconvenient, and 
will be so in this, though the effect may not be immediately pro- 
duced by diminished profits of the farmer. 
As we are to admit preserved meats of whatever curing, 
300 quarts of pferde soup (horse soup) a la Hambro’, 3 cwt. of 
pferde steaks (horse steaks) a la Altona, should be imported for 
the next civic feast. Only fancy, Mr. Editor, you sticking your 
fork into the rump of Count Kikerabouskie’s charger, that broke 
his leg in the school trying to do the last new polka. It is sold by 
the executioner ! Our comparative anatomy will be in request 
soon to satisfy the public what they are going to eat ! 
Your’s, obediently. 
* This happened in Pinneberg district, in 1841. I have changed the place 
and amount, see Continental Veterinary Jurisprudence in my next. 
* Mr. Moorcroft many years ago went on a similar journey to the north of 
England. 
