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skin and extreme parts cannot be kept too warm. The air the 
animal breathes should be rather cool, and uniform in temperature. 
Some cases will bear a second, some a third blood-letting. Aged 
horses will bear bleeding well ; young ones, sparingly, and the 
earlier the better. 
THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY I, 1842. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
It was rendered sufficiently evident in the last Number of our 
Journal, that the management of cows in large towns and in the 
country is essentially different. With regard to the former it is 
a mere matter of money. The cow is valued in proportion to the 
quantity and quality of her milk, and as soon as that diminishes, 
and there is reason to fear that the appearance and quality of 
the meat may likewise suffer, she is hurried away no one knows 
whither or by whom. In large towns this is easily managed, 
and the mysteries of the slaughter-house are not easily pene- 
trated. It is different with the country dairy-man, and more 
particularly with the gentleman and the opulent farmer. Many 
interesting circumstances mingle with his calculation of the 
affair. She has long been about his farm — she has brought 
him many a fine calf — she has been part of his family — he is 
attached to her, and she in some measure to him — and every 
kindly feeling induces him to give her a chance of escape. 
If he were sufficiently hard-hearted to abandon her, how shall 
he accomplish his object? In a large town no one knows 
whither she went or what became of her. In some of the 
market-gardens about the metropolis, five-and-twenty years ago, 
