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REMARKS ON THE SUPPLY OF MILK. 
their knowledge from veterinary sources—from comparative 
anatomy, physiology, and pathology—the connection in the 
chain of creation between man and the horse being: more 
intimate than the superficial observer would suppose. This 
institution, therefore, is calculated to advance medical 
science. 
44 Its primary object, however, is to introduce and extend 
an improved treatment and management of the horse, and 
in this way to benefit the community at large. Of all ani¬ 
mals the horse is the noblest, the best, and the most useful to 
man. In this State, in 1855, according to the State census 
of that year, there were 579,715 horses, a most important 
branch of property and a grand element of prosperity. To 
preserve it from destruction and to improve its value is the 
mission of a public benefactor/ 5 
REMARKS ON THE SUPPLY, USES, AND FABRICATION OP 
MILK. 
The most important of all the dairy productions is cer¬ 
tainly milk, whether considered in its pure form as a beverage 
for domestic use, or in its prepared products, of cream, but¬ 
ter, and cheese. The aggregate consumption of milk, in the 
United Kingdom, excluding the other dairy products 
obtained from it, has been roundly estimated at something 
like 1300 million gallons per annum, which would require, 
to supply it, half a million milch cows. The demand for 
milk in London, Liverpool, and other large towns, is very 
great; and, if we could arrive with any accuracy at the extent 
of the metropolitan consumption, it would be a curious and 
instructive investigation. 'Taking the resident and floating 
population in London at 3,000,000, and assuming that they 
use a quarter of a pint each a day, this would require a 
weekly supply of 656,250 gallons, or 17,062,500 barn gallons 
a year. 
The great proportion of the London supply now comes up 
by railway from the country from considerable distances, and 
the country milk trade is daily increasing. Scarcely one 
fifth of the London supply is furnished by the cows kept in 
the metropolitan lay-stalls, and no doubt ere long the whole 
will come from the suburban districts and the home-counties. 
According to the London Directory, there are about 2900 
dairymen for the supply of the metropolis; what number of 
