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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
times a-day. As soon as any sign is observed, or indeed suspicion 
aroused, of an attack on the chest, counter-irritation ought to be had 
recourse to. The breast should be well rubbed with the liniment, 
and after that has taken effect a rowel may be inserted: at the 
same time the sides ought to be, without hesitation, closely trimmed 
and sharply blistered. Means such as these, we believe, will in 
the generality of cases supersede the necessity of blood-letting; the 
objection to which is, as we have already urged, the great debility 
surely consequent on the abstraction. 
We this month print the fourth and concluding section of Mr. 
Read’s “ Essay on the Management of the Farm Horse.” Our 
readers will remember the notice which was prefixed to the first 
portion of the “ Essay,” in our Number for May last, viz., that it 
was intended to compete for honours offered by the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society for “ the best Essay on the Management of the 
Farm Horse but that, in consequence of its arriving at its desti¬ 
nation later than the time appointed for the receipt of candidates’ 
papers, owing to the sudden indisposition of its author, it was not 
permitted by the Society to enter the ranks of competition. “ ’Tis an 
ill wind that blows nobody any good,” says the old adage: it was 
precisely this direction of the wind that blew Mr. Read’s “ Essay” 
into our pages; wherein it has, we hope and will venture to allege, 
even by veterinarians, been perused with that gratifying interest 
which the lucubrations of men of years of experience and habits of 
observation can hardly fail to elicit. By practical farmers, for 
whose edification the Essay was especially written, the rules of 
guidance laid down for the management of their teams, together 
with the various suggestions scattered through it for the improve¬ 
ment of such management, coming from a man who all his life has 
combined agricultural with veterinary pursuits, will have due and 
proper value set upon them. For our own part, we return Mr. 
Read our best thanks for his paper; while we acknowledge that it 
has added one more, and that a weighty one, to the many obliga¬ 
tions The Veterinarian is alrea y under to him, as one of its 
earliest and staunchest supporters, for numerous valuable contribu¬ 
tions sent to it in days gone by. 
