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and succulent, and has the advantage of being early, on 
which account it has been highly extolled as an agricultural 
plant. It yields two rather abundant crops of green food in 
the year, of a quality highly relished by horses and cattle. 
M. lupulina , the black medick, or nonsuch, is, at first 
sight, so much like the yellow trefoils as to be generally 
known by farmers as the hop trefoil or hop; it is, however, 
distinguished by its naked black legume. It is used in 
farming to mix with grasses and clovers for artificial or 
shifting pastures, in which it often assumes a luxuriance of 
growth well befiting it for this purpose. 
M. mciculata , remarkable for its spirally-coiled, prickly 
legumes, has, from the quantity of herbage which it grows, 
been recommended for cultivation as a green fodder plant; 
but it is scarcely equal to the former, while in hay the long 
prickles to its seed-vessels render it very objectionable. 
In the present series of plants we seem to have a set of 
more or less importance, for while the trigonellas and 
melilots may be considered as adapted for flavouring pur¬ 
poses, for which a small sprinkling of their seeds may be 
added to the clover-field to give perfume and stimulating 
qualities to artificial grasses, the seeds of others may be 
mixed with meals of different kinds for feeding purposes. 
In the lucernes and medicks we have a series adapted as 
soiling plants, but, from their laxative properties when in 
the green state, they should be used with caution. When, 
however, they are made into hay their medicinal action is 
very much diminished. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 
By “ Examiner.” 
In an article published in the January number of the 
Veterinarian , 1880, John Henry Steel, demonstrator of 
anatomy, gives a resume of veterinary matters on this side of 
the Atlantic for the benefit of English readers. The article 
will be found interesting, although there are many veteri¬ 
narians in the United States who will not agree with some 
of the opinions expressed. Leaving them, however, to 
correct the article, in so far as that country is concerned, if 
they feel so disposed, it is necessary to point out the grave 
errors into which the writer—evidently through ignorance-— 
has fallen in regard to Canadian colleges. The article in 
