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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
stable, cowshed, or other premises, or from any land or build¬ 
ing contiguous thereto in the same occupation, except for ■ 
immediate slaughter, without a licence signed by an officer 
of the local authority a])pointed to issue licences in that 
behalf certifying that the cattle moved are not affected with 
pleuro-pneumonia, and have not been in the same shed or 
herd, or in contact with cattle so affected. 
‘‘ 4. Sheds and places used by cattle affected with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia are forthwith after being so used to be cleansed 
and disinfected to the satisfaction of the local authority.” 
It is not possible within our present limits to enter into a 
detailed analysis of the Act; but we have endeavoured to call 
the attention of the members of the profession to those clauses 
which are likely to affect their patients in the most imme¬ 
diate and direct manner, and respecting which, therefore, 
ignorance would not only be inconvenient, but culpable. 
A careful study of the Act, and the two Orders which 
are supplementary to it, and with it constitute the whole 
law of the subject, will not necessitate any serious amount of 
labour, and, considering the vast importance of the measure 
to the stock-breeding interests of this country, it is hardly 
necessary to insist that the labour will not be expended in 
vain. 
HORSE-SHOEING, AND THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY EOR THE 
PREVENTION OE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
In our advertisement columns will be found a challenge 
which is calculated to call forth the energies of practical men 
who have made the art of farriery an object of intelligent 
investigation, and not merely of mechanical skill. The plan 
of the essay, as suggested by the secretary's circular, is not 
absolutely imperative, but it appears to us to include all the 
important points which require consideration, and nothing 
could be better for the opening of the essay than the arrange¬ 
ment which involves the proposition stated in paragraph 1, 
and the query in paragraph 2, Can you suggpt anything 
better ? ” at once opens up a discussion upon the entire 
principles of the art. 
Considering how much evil the various svstems of shoeing 
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