THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 563 
Its numbers have doubled within the last few months, and it 
possesses sufficient power to accomplish every good purpose. 
That Society has looked around its vast possessions, and has 
rightly estimated their money’s worth. It finds that the aggregate 
value of our noble breed of horses amounts to nearly twenty-two 
millions of pounds, but that the value of our cattle, sheep, and 
other domesticated animals exceeds more than one hundred and 
twenty-eight millions, nearly six times more than that of the horse. 
It offers to ally itself with the Royal Veterinary College. Not- 
withstanding there is this overwhelming difference in the value of 
these classes of animals, it wishes not the slightest curtailment of 
the instruction which appertains to the horse ; but it demands, and 
it will enforce that demand here or elsewhere, that equal attention 
shall fairly, honestly, fully, be paid to that portion of veterinary 
instruction which has reference to their more numerous and in- 
estimable flocks and herds. 
How great a proportion would we yield of a life that, in truth, 
is now drawing near its close, if we could meet these men as Mr. 
Sewell and the Governors of the Veterinary College may do ! 
“ Come among us,” we would say. “ Help us, although late in 
the day, to make our institution what it was designed to be. We 
have done our country some service with regard to the horse, — the 
horse unequalled even on his native sands. Let us now see whe- 
ther we cannot mitigate or avert the diseases by which so many 
of our cattle are swept away, and millions of our sheep destroyed. 
Our horses — our cattle — our sheep ! the world cannot produce the 
like of them ! A thousand years may pass, and we should not 
have the same cause for self-gratulation, and the thanks and the 
esteem of our country ! !” 
Such would be our feelings, and such, we trust, will be the feelings 
of the Professor, and of those who hold sway at the College. The 
time is past for those half measures which have hitherto degraded 
our profession. The heart must be thrown into a cause like this. 
Let the Professor, that is to be, use the influence which he pos- 
sesses, and establish an honest and an effective school of veterinary 
instruction, embracing all these noble objects, and he may with 
truth say, 
