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Without doubt, this is an operation which must be kept within 
bounds. It is in the vicinity of large towns that most benefit will 
be reaped from it, where milk is greatly sought after, and where 
pasturage is scanty and consequently food for cows expensive. 
On this account, it is not the practice to raise calves about the 
environs of Paris. Indeed, at Cormenteuil, near Rheims, out of 
one hundred and forty-five cows kept, not more than from ten to 
fifteen calves are produced yearly. 
3dly. Is spaying attended with amelioration of the quality of 
the meat I 
That cows fatten well after being spayed is an incontestible 
fact, one long known to agriculturists. For many years past this 
operation has been practised in England*, Germany, Switzerland, 
and the United States, &c., with the sole object of obtaining an 
augmented quantity-of meat of an improved quality, superior even 
to ox beef. 
4thly. Does spaying prolong the period of lactation, and augment 
the quantity of milk I 
The cow will be found to give as much milk after eighteen 
months as immediately after the operation. (It is to be observed 
here, that the committee have not had under observation M. Char- 
lier’s cow-house for longer time than this.) And there was found in 
quantity, in favour of the spayed cows, a difference of nearly eight 
hundred and fifty pints yearly. 
5thly. Is the quality of the milk ameliorated by spaying 1 
To resolve this question, we have thought proper to make an 
appeal to skilful chemists resident in the neighbourhood, and they 
have determined that the milk abounds more by one-third in cheese 
and butter than that of ordinary cows. 
(Laloulette, Mayor of Brognon.) 
Recueil de Med. Vet., Dec. 1849. 
Home Extracts. 
Visit to the North-East of Europe. 
By the Author of the Late Struggles of Ahd-el-Kader . 
St. Petersburgh, March 1850. 
The horses of Siberia furnished a subject on which, a short 
time since, I sent you some interesting details, taken, for the most 
part, from Le Journal des Haras et de la Chasse, but illustrated 
* This is the first time we have heard of it. — E d. Vet. 
