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ach individual; and where, as in hospitals, the apartments 
re occupied during the whole twenty-four hours, 1,000 feet 
5 considered not too much. And yet it is reported that some 
ounty councils and the local authorities are hesitating about 
xing the cubic space for dairy cows at 800 feet, and some 
ave actually recommended that this may be as low as 450 
set. Government has already been urged to apply radical 
leasures for the suppression of bovine tuberculosis, and some 
o not hesitate to recommend the system of slaughter and 
ompensation now in force against pleuro-pneumonia. The 
atepayers may form some notion of what this would cost the 
ountry if 10 to 20 per cent, of adult cattle are alreadv at- 
icked, and if byres, from insufficient space and defective 
entilation, are to remain veritable hot-beds for the propaga- 
.011 of the disease.— Veterinary Record. 
THE OFFORD ELBOW PAD. 
According to the Veterinary Record (England), this new 
ontrivance is one of the best of all the appliances known, de¬ 
igned for the relief of horses affected with that annoying 
rouble known as lapped elbow. 
All sorts of pads have been invented with a view to obvi- 
te the evil of pressure on the injured part, but all have failed 
D give satisfactory results, and animals which are liable to 
iiffer from the injury in question are still, now and then, laid 
p disabled for various periods of time. The new invention 
> due to a layman, and according to those who have used it 
j: is incomparably the best of its kind. 
It consists of a long pad, slung from above, in such a mail¬ 
er that it hangs just under the sternum, extending rather 
eyond both elbows. Its action seems to be to effectually 
rotect the elbow from pressure while the horse is lying 
own, and thus to cause the disappearance of the unsightly 
amors by gradual absorption. 
Those who have used this pad affirm that their experience 
Listifies them in saying that it has given them entire satisfac- 
ion, and that it acts equally well in cases where both elbows 
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