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a certain extent, should be tried in the first instance — at least 
with those that appear to be affected. 
(Signed) “Wm. Sewell, 
“ Professor, Royal Veterinary College." 
May Y7th . — His Grace the Duke of Rutland informed the 
Council that, agreeably with Professor Sewell’s suggestion, he 
had directed his bailiff to select three of the lamb hogs of the 
Belvoir Farm flock, which seemed, on examination, to be the 
most diseased among the fifty that were affected, and to send 
them by railway to the Veterinary College in London, in order 
that Professor Sewell might kill, and institute a post-mortem ex- 
amination on one of these animals, with a view to ascertain the 
cause of the disease, and then apply the knowledge thus gained 
to his experiments in the treatment of the other two. His Grace 
farther informed the Council, that when the disease first appeared 
among the lamb hogs of the flock, the weather was exceedingly 
dry, but that after a night of rain, which had occurred a fortnight 
ago, the mortality among them ceased at once , and not one had 
died since, nor had the bailiff found it necessary to separate any 
fresh case from the flock ! ! 
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“There is reason in all things.” 
[We extract the subjoined papers from the Waterford Mirror. 
We confess that we read them with some degree of surprise. 
Mr. Ions’ reputation is too well established to need the ques- 
tionable aid of a clap-trap like this : and, really, although we 
admire a liberal feeling and conduct towards our employers, 
this appears to us to be carrying the matter too far. — Y.] 
To the Editor of 11 The Mirror.” 
Sir, — In justice to Mr. Ions (proprietor of the veterinary 
establishment at Waterford ), and for the benefit of society, I feel 
happy to give publicity to the judicious treatment of cattle seized 
with the prevailing epidemic, given by him gratuitously, by in- 
sertion in your paper. My stock, to the extent of thirty-seven 
head, unfortunately caught the contagion, and were treated agree- 
able to the underneath recipe of Mr. Ions’s with the most bene- 
ficial results, without being obliged to repeat the medicine in more 
than one or two cases. My labourers, calves, pigs, &e., made 
use of the milk, and the produce of two cows (whose udders were 
