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ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON COW-SPAYING. 
subject than I have done in a former paper. Mr. Storrerhas 
not yet proved in any way that the symptoms I detailed were 
not those of grass-staggers ; and until he does, I can take no 
notice of any future statement he may make. If he will 
write on the subject, let him be definite, and describe the 
symptoms and post-mortem appearances of lead-poisoning 
and grass-staggers, and prove to the readers of the Veterinarian 
the statement he made in a late number, namely, that the 
symptoms I detailed were “ ridiculously” called by me those 
of grass-staggers. 
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON COW-SPAYING. 
By Andrew Galley, Kirkton-by-Burntisland. 
Gentlemen, —Y"ou will oblige me by publishing the follow¬ 
ing supplementary observations to my paper on “Cow-spaying” 
which appeared in your October number. I should not 
presume to enter into any veterinary investigation requiring 
scientific research or learned attainments, but the subject of 
my communication is entirely a practical one, and refers to 
operative proceedings, which can only be tested by trial, and 
their value ascertained by their results; and as these came 
within my personal knowledge, and I can vouch for their 
accuracy, I consider it a duty to bring them under public 
notice, by submitting them to the impartial consideration of 
your readers and your own editorial remarks. 
Allow me a word or two before proceeding to my practical 
details on the introduction of this new French veterinary 
operation of cow-spaying. Statistics, it is well known, can 
be got up to show the converse of any question. According 
to Mr. Gamgee^s statistics, a loss on lean and unspayed 
bullers which are annually slaughtered in France is esti¬ 
mated to amount to £648,000 sterling. Mr. Charlier, from 
whom Mr. Gamgee quotes, when he published this statement 
must surely have been dreaming. The famine in Egypt, fol¬ 
lowing PharoalPs dream of the seven lean-fleshed kine eating- 
up the other seven fat kine, was but a shortlived calamity 
compared with that, which Mr. CharliePs countless horde of 
lean bullers would inflict upon his country, if his calculations 
have not been founded upon “'the baseless fabric of a vision,” 
which was, however, not inspired. 
By pregnant cows, according to the same authority, the 
loss is calculated to be £48,000 sterling “ simply on the calf 
