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ON ONE-SIDED NAILING. 
to a livery stable at the expense and risk of the owner, or sell 
it to pay the charges, as they may think proper ; giving the pro¬ 
prietor a week’s previous notice of such determination. 
No person whatever, the members of the council excepted, 
shall be permitted to go into the infirmary without the permission 
of the professor, nor at any time but between the hours of eleven 
and tw o o’clock. 
If any animal die in the infirmary, the body shall belong to 
the college, and the professor shall open it before the pupils for 
their particular instruction. 
RULES CONCERNING THE GROOMS AND HELPERS. 
No grooms, helpers, &c. shall be retained in the service of the 
college but such as are sober and diligent, and approved of by 
the superintending committee. 
As the food shall be ordered every day by the professor ac¬ 
cording to state of the patient, the grooms shall not increase or 
lessen the portions ordered. This article must be observed with 
the most rigid exactness. 
The infirmary shall be kept in the greatest degree of cleanli¬ 
ness. 
The most gentle treatment of the animals is strictly enjoined. 
The groom or assistant who shall be convicted of having abused 
a horse, &c. shall be instantly discharged. 
An assistant shall be appointed, who will be charged with the 
care of the dispensary and laboratory, under the direction of the 
professor. 
A steward shall be appointed, who will be charged with the 
care of the forage, &c. belonging’ to the college. 
A smith shall be appointed, who will be charged with the care 
of the forge, subject to the professor, by whom he shall be ap¬ 
pointed or dismissed, w ith the approbation of the committee. 
Other servants shall be hereafter appointed, as occasion may 
require. 
ON ONE-SIDED NAILING. 
By Mr. W. C. Spooner, Blandford. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
On perusing the last Number of your periodical I read with 
pleasure a paper entitled “ Nailing Horseshoes on.” I was grati¬ 
fied to find that the subject had at length awakened attention, 
being convinced that that attention would only tend to its bene- 
