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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
horse dealer who buys a horse and not liking it, or when 
tempted by a good offer sells it again, and buys another; 
and on the same principle, a farmer who buys a few cows 
for his own establishment, and when from time to time over¬ 
burdened with milk or butter sends the excess to market, is 
not a dairyman ; but whatever might be the interpretation 
of the terms used, there would still be a large number of 
persons who would occupy neutral territory. 
In the Order of Council referring to dairymen, cowkeepers, 
and purveyors of milk, the words of the Act 1878 are closely 
adhered to ; and as the makers of laws never attempt to 
interpret them, it is presumably left to the local authority 
in each district to determine to whom the Order shall 
apply. Fortunately, the Order is so framed that a too 
extended grasp will not inflict any great injustice. The 
act of being registered will not do any harm to the indi¬ 
vidual, and it may even come to be considered in the light 
of a distinction to be included in the list of registered 
dairymen under an Order of Council, even if the person 
so distinguished only keeps one cow, and sells a little milk 
occasionally. 
A prominent object of the Order is to provide against 
contamination of milk with the infective matter of human 
contagion; this part of the Order is couched in general 
terms, and will be, we apprehend, subordinated as to its 
results to the more definite considerations which affect the 
well-being of the cows themselves, and the sanitary state of 
their habitations. 
BABIES AND THE BOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 
Our readers will have learned with a surprise equal to our 
own that, after a comparatively very short isolation, in con¬ 
sequence of the existence of rabies in the p-ack, the Royal 
buckhounds have resumed their work. The Globe, Feb. 3rd, 
stated that Yesterday Her Majesty's stag hounds again 
appeared in public, after being shut up for rabies and frost 
