102 THK AGKICUI.TIJRTST, AND 
ment, however, we glanced at it, we asked ourselves, What reason 
can a stranger have to write a disguised hand ? for this was evident, 
and to a very laboured degree : and this thought had scarcely 
passed through our minds, ere we recognized in the Stranger” 
an old acquaintance, and who had not always been a very wel¬ 
come one. He is an advocate for eliciting from the profession 
something that may be useful on this question of the principles of 
shoeing. “ Something should be established beyond dispute,” 
says he ; for w'hile Coleman”—we are using his affected, or, as 
we suspect, his natural way of speaking of persons and things— 
would have frog-pressure, Clark would have none; and Dick, 
of Edinburgh, declares it is of no consequence whether the frog 
has pressure or not, can these gentlemen, with such discordance 
of opinion, conduct horse-shoeing equally well?” Allowing him 
his premises, which we apprehend would be disputed, the ques¬ 
tion is a very fair one, and easily answered; and would more fully 
prove the necessity of having something, at this late period, defi¬ 
nitively settled on these points. 
When this writer goes farther, and states other opinions of one 
of these gentlemen, and contrary to these which he has recorded 
in print, we must require his name and address, although, as we 
have already said, we believe that he is no stranger to us. If he 
means fairly, he cannot object to this. 
We have received from another correspondent a well-reported 
case of disease. We shall readily insert it, if we are enabled to 
append his name to it. Without this, he must be aware that it 
cannot be useful to the reader, or quoted as authority. 
We have lately again and again urged our brethren to mark 
the sio ns of the times. The establishment of the agricultural so- 
cieties that have so numerously sprung up within the last few 
years, and more especially that of a national agricultural society, 
of which there is so fair and immediate a prospect, will or may 
effect a great change in the connexion between the veterinary 
surgeon and the farmer. In the working out of the views and 
purposes of these societies, the veterinarian would always be a 
