VETERINARY POLITICS. 
53 
tacking cattle, sheep, and pigs. It is a malady which, in common 
with other diseases, human skill, to whatever degree of perfection 
it may be brought, may never be able to avert. The same dili- 
gence and attention to the diseases to which these animals are inci- 
dent cannot fail, however, to attain a result quite as successful as 
the study of the diseases of the horse has produced. It should 
seem, from proceedings now going on, that there is a considerable 
number of members of the veterinary profession who think that a 
great improvement might be effected in the system of education 
pursued at the Veterinary College, and that the profession, as a 
body, has a right to call upon the legislature for certain privileges 
which they do not now enjoy. Upon these points we offer no 
opinion. There is, however, one question on which we entertain 
an opinion, in common with a considerable number of the move- 
ment party, namely, that the course of study adopted at the Ve- 
terinary College, in regard to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and 
pigs, is not by any means efficient. If the question stood as it did 
before the Royal Agricultural Society made the liberal contribution 
of two hundred pounds per annum to the Veterinary College for the 
express purpose of promoting an improved system of education in 
this particular branch, we should have only felt it necessary to ap- 
peal to the Veterinary College, as best consulting the interests of the 
members of the profession, by qualifying them to treat successfully 
the diseases of animals of such great value to the farmer. As the 
question now stands, however, we feel ourselves placed in a differ- 
ent position. The Royal Agricultural Society has placed the sum 
of two hundred pounds per annum at the disposal of the Veterinary 
College, for the express purpose of improving the system of edu- 
cation in reference to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs. We 
deprecate the niggardly, meddling spirit, which would seek an in- 
terference in the conduct of the affairs of the Veterinary College, 
merely because a contribution is made to the funds. We should 
be content to state the object, pay the money, and leave it to the 
right feeling of the managing parties to see that sum properly ex- 
pended. But if we are told by members of the veterinary profes- 
sion itself that the money is not well applied, — if we are told that 
the receivers of this money do little more than has been done here- 
tofore, — we hold it to be a just subject for animadversion ; we 
