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given to horses and cattle should always be bruised. On the 
farm where tail corn is used up, as this is frequently mixed, 
with the seeds of weeds too small to insure their being 
bruised, we always boil the whole together for full half an 
hour before using it for feeding purposes; and were this 
svstem more practised, so many weed seeds would not find 
tiieir way about the farm as we everywhere see to be the 
case. 
These remarks will show how much practical matter may 
be derived from the study of seeds; but this will appear in 
even a stronger light when we examine the subject in its 
chemical relations, which we hope to do in our next paper. 
EDUCATION AND EXAMINATION OF VETERI¬ 
NARY STUDENTS. 
By X. Y. 
I READ with much pleasure in the Veterinarian for March 
and April the inaugural addresses of Messrs. Greaves and 
Gibson to the Liverpool and Lancashire Medical Association, 
also the remarks thereon by the members present, on the sub¬ 
ject of the education and examination of veterinary students ; 
but why this should have been so long from being put into 
practice I am at a loss to conceive, so much having been 
written on the respectability of the veterinary profession, I 
may say, since the first issue of the Veterinarian. And what 
has been done ? comparatively nothing. True, a Charter has 
been obtained by which it is now a recognised profession, 
but will any one tell me that it has been the means of 
causing a better class of young men to enter the colleges ? 
No. And so long as there is no preliminary examination, 
and the present low scale of fees, there is no inducement for 
the better class of young men to enter. I was lately asked 
by two M.R.C.V.S.^s to look at another member whom we 
met in a fair, and as we stood behind him, surveying him 
from head to foot, one of them says, “ there is a specimen of 
a member of a liberal and enlightened profession and 
certainly he had more the appearance of what we call in this 
country a butcheUs swab. But I have seen many who can 
put M.R.C.V.S. after their names, and dress decent, yet 
from their education and low habits formed are no credit to 
any profession. You may say, turn to the medical profes- 
