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the public ; but it is frequently at the expense of the private 
practitioner. You may think me illiberal ; if so, I cannot help it, 
for I speak from many years’ experience and observation. 
As to the Professor’s late circular to the agriculturist and 
breeder, many of our brethren whom l know complain how much 
it hurt their practice amongst cattle. 
I see by the press, that the Professor’s report, read at the agri- 
cultural meeting at Liverpool, formed by six hundred communi- 
cations upon the recent epidemic, is thought so much of, that 
they refused a copy of it to the reporters, intending it for their 
own publication ; but the Professor commenced writing on the 
treatment of the diseases of cattle before he knew how to teach 
it. 
You and many others anticipate a great advantage to the pro- 
fession in its being united with the Agricultural Society. I hope 
that you will not be disappointed. No doubt, those gentlemen 
who give the most practical information in their writings will 
be thought much of ; but, from what I see and know of the breeder 
and grazier, I fear the practical man will be less called for. They 
will apply to him in extreme cases, but his general practice 
amongst them will be curtailed. 
An old practitioner, in a large market town surrounded by 
breeders and graziers, informed me that his father practised for 
forty years before him, in the same town, as a farrier and cow- 
leech, and used to supply all the town and country round with 
medicine for the horses and cattle, and attend them ; but now 
they go to the retail druggist for every thing : he has not half the 
practice his father had, yet he is a better qualified man. He 
complains very much of the information given in The Veteri- 
narian, and the Professor’s circular. Itencourages the empiric, 
so that owners of horses and cattle quack their stock more than 
ever was known before. Some of the records of “ the Association” 
which you have published contain good practical observations ; 
but much of it would be better confined to the school until the 
speakers have had a great deal more practical experience. 
We will now take in alphabetical order the advocates of a dif- 
ferent plan. 
From Mr. Jos. Beeson, Amersham. 
My opinion is, that the Periodical now under consideration is 
of extreme value. It is, indeed, the very life and soul of the pro- 
fession. It is the only and proper medium through which the 
