ON ANIMAL PERSPIRATION. 
379 
This, no doubt, is the case in a great degree ; but I conceive 
that animal perspiration was still farther ordained as a regu¬ 
lator of the heat of the body in severe exertion, in the same 
manner as we apply refrigerating lotions to an inflamed part. 
I will fancy a horse to be galloped for a short time. The in¬ 
voluntary muscles quickly sympathize with those that are volun¬ 
tary ; circulation is accelerated, and a profuse perspiration shews 
itself. Now’, if perspiration was a mere excrementitious process, 
would the animal have any more fluid now to dispense with than 
when in quietude ? I think not, at least in a horse not over ple¬ 
thoric. It must be evident that, when the body is covered with 
this sensible perspiration, the abstraction of heat by evapora¬ 
tion is very great, and this must act as a salutary refrigerant to 
the over-heated animal. 
Not that I mean to doubt the opinions that are generally 
entertained on this point, for the body is continually in a state 
of renovation, and there is a considerable portion voided by the 
exhalents: but as I think it is not necessary that the horse 
should perspire more in exercise than quietude, 1 cannot think 
that the Omnipotent would make any thing superfluous. 
If you think this worthy of insertion, I should feel obliged by 
any of your correspondents expressing their thoughts on the 
subject in your next number. 
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS. 
[We perfectly agree with the Editor of that most valuable agri¬ 
cultural journal. The British Farmer^s Magaziney that the fol¬ 
lowing extract, from The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture^ 
cannot be too strongly recommended to the notice of our readers, 
whether agricultural or veterinary. It has primary reference 
to the education of the sons of landed proprietors, but it 
sketches a system of tuition which no man can so well carry 
out, either alone or connected with some talented agricul¬ 
turist, as the veterinary surgeon. Without his co-operation, 
indeed, a very important division of the necessary instruction 
would be inefficiently communicated. We have two or three 
of our professional brethren in our mind’s eye, and one of them 
not far from the metropolis, who could profitably and well 
work out a plan like this.—Y.] 
Is it not,” asks the writer, passing strange that any coun¬ 
try gentleman should be unacquainted with farming—the very 
source of his livelihood—when all other classes of people, in learn- 
