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which she modestly charged two shillings and sixpence, and re¬ 
quested that she might have a bottle of human urine every morn¬ 
ing : I wonder she did not order a-to be put in it. The 
result was as I anticipated : the cow died,—a just retribution for 
such ignorance and folly. On my remonstrating with the owner 
for employing such people, I was met with the reply, that her 
grandfather was a farrier, her father after him, and her brothers, 
and that she possessed all their receipts. In fact, he considered 
her knowledge as a sort of heir-loom in the family. 
• Farmers seem a class of society (I mean the greater part of 
them) that do not give themselves much trouble in employing 
their reasoning faculties; education with them seems to be but 
little estimated, and they are continually exposing themselves to 
be plundered by unprincipled and disgusting quacks. A farrier, 
in their estimation, must be a great strong fellow, able to knock a 
bullock down with his fist; one that can tell a hundred lies at a 
sitting, drink a bucket full of ale, and smoke a dozen pipes of 
tobacco. The greater part of the farmers never seem to think 
that it is a profession which requires either much study or expe¬ 
rience ; they adhere as strongly to all their ancient prejudices as 
they did fifty years ago, without for a moment taking into consi¬ 
deration the advancement of veterinary science: even our dress 
must be in accordance with their ideas; and to succeed in our 
profession we are almost compelled to become the associate of 
grooms and stable boys. To convince such men of their errors 
is a task of no ordinary nature : the attempt is generally unsuc¬ 
cessful; it only adds to our enemies, and causes us to be desig¬ 
nated as fools and madmen.The picture is a gloomy one, but it is 
not overdrawn. It is time for us all to unite, heart and hand, in 
vindicating the character of our profession; and that can only be 
done by cultivating a species of knowledge which we have not 
hitherto been supposed to possess, and to which, in plain fact, we 
have not had a shadow of pretension. Sterling science will 
eventually triumph, whatever may be our present state of dis¬ 
couragement and debasement. 
I should like to see the subject of Veterinary Jurisprudence 
considered in your Journal. 
A CASE OF TWIN FOALS. 
By Mr. E. Battersbee, V.S., Croydon , 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian ” • 
Gentlemen, 
A series of interesting papers having been written by Mr. 
Karkeek, on Breeding, and conveyed to the public through the 
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