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MACHINE-MADE HORSE-SHOES, ETC. 
Cases of this kind are of frequent occurrence, and will con¬ 
tinue to be so under the present system of high feeding, 
unless means are adopted to preserve the digestive and 
assimilative functions in perfect health. These vital functions 
are overtaxed by the quantities of cake, corn, roots, hay, &c., 
supplied to the animal, and hence the origin of the urinary 
deposits. The exhibition of aperients, conjoined with a 
greater amount of exercise than is usually allowed rams 
which are being made up for sale or letting, will often have a 
most beneficial effect as a prophylactic. 
Some ram breeders depend on diuretic agents to prevent 
these urinary deposits, and give for this purpose nitrate of 
potash, oil of turpentine, and balsam of copaiva; and 
according to their statements with the greatest benefit. 
We have often succeeded in removing the stranguary by a 
gentle manipulation of the vermiform appendage, rolling it 
between the fingers. A partial and complete removal of this 
organ by excision is also practised, and with success, in so 
far as the immediate results are concerned; but it is to be re¬ 
membered that such rams are likely to prove sterile. It was 
at one time believed that animals thus operated upon were 
effectually prevented from getting lambs, but experience has 
shown to the contrary. There is, however, too much un¬ 
certainty respecting the preservation of the procreative power 
to warrant us in recommending such animals being kept for 
stock purposes. Wether sheep placed under similar circum¬ 
stances of feeding and management are likewise the sub¬ 
jects of the disease, but ewes never; for the obvious reason 
that all sabulous matter can easily be expelled through the 
meatus urinarivs . 
MACHINE-MADE HORSE-SHOES, AND THE “WORKING 
EARRIERS” SOCIETY. 
A large meeting of the Amalgamated Society of 
Working Farriers was recently held at the Soho Theatre, to 
protest against the application of the American invention 
for making horse-shoes by machinery. The chair was occu¬ 
pied by Mr. W. Mann. Several speakers addressed the 
meeting, and resolutions were adopted to the effect that all 
“ society men’’ should refuse to put on shoes made by non¬ 
society men during the slack season, when the society men 
were out of work ; and that after the 26th instant, all members 
