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spaying to be. Indeed, Mr. Gamgee himself got the best 
answer on the subject when, on visiting the byres, he in¬ 
quired of the milkmaid, who had charge of the cows and 
to whom he was not known, how the cows were thriving after 
the operations, when he was told by her that not one of them 
had a day to do well after they had been operated on by 
some one from Edinburgh. 
Mr. Gamgee, on all occasions, and very much of late, has 
passed unworthy aspersions on farriers, classifying under the 
name of quacks and empirics such as practise the humbler 
but useful duties of the veterinary art, whom he designates 
as cow-leeches and sow-spayers. The honour and reputation 
of all engaged in the different departments of a profession 
or trade are derived solely from an honest and truthful dis¬ 
charge of duty, and not from arrogant pretensions of supe¬ 
riority ; and he forgets that, by attempting to degrade us with 
injurious names, while he practises the very trade he dis¬ 
parages, and in becoming a cow-spayer himself, for which he 
charges and receives fees for benefits promised and assured, 
he subjects his vocation to the very imputations with which 
that of quacks and empirics are so justly charged. 
I am. Gentlemen, 
Your most obedient servant, 
Andrew Calley. 
To the 'Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian . 3 
Facts and Observations, 
EXISTENCE OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN GALATZ. 
A letter, dated Galatz, August 24th, says "Owing to 
the appearance of the cattle disease, the third and fourth quar¬ 
ters of the town are in quarantine, two of the barriers are closed, 
and communication with the interior is maintained by one 
single barrier. Precautions have been taken to prevent the 
town cattle mixing with those arriving from the interior; but 
so contagious is the disease, that it is to be greatly feared 
that the whole town will shortly be placed in quarantine,— 
Bell’s Messenger . 
