BY Mil. T. TURNER. 
691 
Veterinary College, his eligibility, as to education, should be first 
tested by the Professors in conclave ; and, if he is found illiterate 
by those gentlemen, he should be mildly rejected, and recom- 
mended to pursue a course of study which might, at some after 
period, entitle him to admission. I cannot refrain from ex- 
pressing my belief that a productive source of injury has been 
perpetuated, and is much to be lamented, by the hitherto indis- 
criminate admission of pupils into the parent Institution. 
I also deem the following expedient to be peremptorily de- 
manded ; — that the name and address, if known, of every certifi- 
cated veterinary surgeon, alphabetically arranged, should twice 
in each year be advertized in the three leading newspapers of the 
day, the expense attending which must be considered trifling 
as compared with the general benefit. There would be nothing 
invidious in this, as it would leave the uncertificated or self-edu- 
cated, in their wisdom and discretion, to publish a similar noti- 
fication of themselves for the information and guidance of the 
public. 
1 cannot altogether take leave of my young friends and their 
interests, without adverting to a short but pleasing controversy 
which my much esteemed friend Mr. William Percivall — in the 
copious flow of his zeal, which has ever been most beneficially 
exercised to the advantage of his profession — has been prompted 
to engage in, touching the groundwork of the practice of the ve- 
terinary student. Mr. Percivall has promulgated a certain code 
of laws for the youthful aspirant, with reference to the shoeing 
art. which I cannot help thinking are much too stringent, and 
certainly somewhat misplaced. 
As a practical man, I know full well that, to carry out the art 
of shoeing horses to perfection, two artificers of sufficient physi- 
cal strength, skill, and dexterity, should be selected, and their 
required performances are perfectly distinct from each other. 
The fireman, intended only for one side of the anvil to forge a 
shoe, rarely, if ever, arrives at his zenith in the perfect execution 
of his work until some years have passed away exclusive of the 
seven years’ apprenticeship ; and the doorman, on the other side 
of the anvil, or safe nailer on of the shoe to the foot, is never 
deemed to be expert or unerring until after he has served seven 
years’ apprenticeship in that department alone, in a good bustling 
shop of business. With these facts so fresh in my recollection, 
I cannot forbear, in mercy to the student, to suggest that a line 
should be drawn in this affair, feeling myself convinced that, in 
the event of Mr. Percivall’s advice being strictly carried out, and 
all the leisure time of the pupil spent in accomplishing the un- 
