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spatched by the secretary to any locality or farm in the country 
wherein disease among cattle or sheep shall be shewn to be raging 
with any inordinate prevalence or fatality. 
Whatever success may attend this scheme we apprehend will 
entirely depend upon the person appointed inspector. That a 
competent and clever medical man in the situation may, acting as 
consulting physician, in times of emergency turn out to be of 
essential service, there cannot be two opinions; but then he ought 
to be a man who has had ample field and opportunity of seeing 
and studying cattle disease, or he may prove no better than the 
veterinary surgeon or cowleech on the spot. Further than this, 
we must confess we do not anticipate much result from the Society’s 
procedure. If the object be to attain a knowledge of cattle patho¬ 
logy better than the present low standard of it, in our opinion such 
an insulated act as the appointment of an inspector can achieve no 
such thing. Nothing can do this save an improved foundation to 
work upon for such knowledge, and abundant field for observation 
and practice, with ample time for the carrying of them out. Pa¬ 
thology is a branch of medicine of notoriously tardy growth, and 
can only grow at all in perfection when the trunk whence it pro¬ 
ceeds yields it plenty of sap. 
MISCELLANEA. 
A Farrier’s Sign. 
Sir,— The following little morceau I copied from a farrier’s shop 
at Carleton Church, on the road to York. It was surmounted by a 
large horseshoe curiously constructed in brick-work. 
H. C. Cook. 
(To the Editor of the Mirror.) 
Gentlemen, as you pass bye, 
Upon this shoe pray cast your eye. 
If it be too straight, I’ll make it wider, 
I’ll ease the horse, and please the rider; 
Or lame from shoeing, as they often are, 
You may have them eas’d with the greatest care. 
