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factory, theirs having been for years and remaining yet we know 
far below the ones he mentions. Why should it be so ? It is 
because, so far, and with very few exceptions, veteiinary teach¬ 
ings have been mostly private undertakings, and that only in 
the two or three institutions which were endowed special fees 
were paid to teachers ; but if rumor is true these last schools 
were obliged in some way or another to change their mode of 
operation ; yes, suspend work ! 
Veterinary teaching as a private undertaking has no busi¬ 
ness to exist. 
Veterinary institutions that cannot afford to remunerate 
their teachers in a proper manner cannot expect to ask much 
from their faculties unless, as has been the case in countries 
where veterinary education was established but recently. 
Veterinary schools in large numbers, as we are threatened 
to see them in some parts of the world, would be much better if 
that number was reduced, if the few colleges which would 
remain were patronized by the State, supported by the State, 
and their faculties sufficiently remunerated by the State. 
The remarks of the worthy editor of the Veterinary Journal 
are well to the point, and although the plan he suggests may 
receive less of private support, there can be no doubt that by 
them he has made public and corrected a too much admitted 
error, that veterinary teaching was a sinecure. It is not in Eng¬ 
land, nor in Scotland, and far less in the United States, as we 
know by long experience. Is it better on the continent, where 
the schools are under the control of the State ? That is the 
question. 
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A Goat Dairy Farm, and Its Advantages.— At one of 
the last meetings of the Societe de Medecine et de Chirurgie 
Pratiques in a long discussion on the treatment of tuberculosis, 
Dr. Ch. Levassort took up the question of the influence of 
milk as a factor of the contagion, and after a severe criticism on 
the condition of the cow’s milk, brought about the advisability 
of resorting to the use of goat’s milk as food for children, in 
