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MR. CHERRY’S LECTURE 
change takes place in the animal, viz. the spring and the autumn. 
During the middle of the winter an animal is much less suscepti- 
ble to disease than during the warm and muggy months of the 
latter autumn ; for at that period of the year they are shedding 
their coats, and preparing for the change of season ; and of course, 
when there is the greatest liability to disease, there should also 
be the greatest attention to the comfort and general condition of 
the animal. A change of food is frequently requisite : as soon as 
animals have become tired of one form of food, another should be 
given to them. 
The question is altogether one of too much importance to be 
disposed of in a summary manner, or in a single lecture ; but I 
trust that I have started some points which may hereafter be 
taken up with advantage. I have before remarked, that we must 
not attempt to remove by any particular treatment a disease so 
widely spread ; it is only by carrying out a general plan that we 
can hope to arrest it. 
A Member here asked whether it had occurred to the speaker 
to make any observations with regard to the unwholesomeness of 
diseased cattle as human food. 
Mr. CHERRY, in reply to that question, would observe that, 
in the advanced stages of the disease, cattle become unwholesome 
as food, inasmuch as they do not possess the full quantity of nu- 
tritious matter. The meat had lost its redness of colour; in fact, 
lost its general character : it was soft, tasteless, and flabby, not 
having the taste of meat. 
Mr. F. Hobbs. — As a member of the committee, I feel much 
indebted to Mr. Cherry for having come forward to introduce the 
subject of pleuro-pneumonia ; and I feel persuaded that the mem- 
bers of the Club present on this occasion entertain a similar feeling. 
I quite agree with Mr. Cherry, that the subject of pleuro-pneu- 
monia is one of vast importance to the country at large ; it being 
now generally admitted that more animals die from this disease 
alone than are imported into the country under the tariff. I do 
not believe that any of us pay that attention which we ought to 
pay to keeping our animals warm during the autumn and winter 
months, particularly at this period of the year. We seem rather 
inclined to allow them to remain upon low, marshy, and swampy 
land — I suppose, because there is a little feeding going on there — ■ 
than to remove them to drier land, and there give them a little 
food from which they would derive greater benefit. I quite concur 
in the remark of Mr. Cherry on that subject. It is my firm belief 
that the more attention we pay to the warmth of our animals, and 
to the adoption of improved methods of constructing farm buildings, 
the less food animals will consume, while, at the same time, they 
