CORRESPONDENCE. 
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On July 4th Mr. Stephens .requested my presence on his farm 
to attend a cow that was sick, and improving the opportunity, I 
took a look at the pigs (it being then forty-two days after 
the operation.) The tumor on the sow had decreased to the size 
of a small hickory nut, but the barrow had not done so well. All 
of the pigs about a week ago had broken out of the pen, and the 
barrow getting into the garden, Mrs. S. put the dog after him. 
The pig ran and squeezed himself through the fence iuto the 
cornfield, and when Mr. S. found him the next dav he was the 
worse for the wear. It is now the size of a large orange, with a 
well defined neck at the base. Previous to this it was no larger 
than the sow’s was when I saw her. 
Yours most respectfully, 
T. C. White. 
BETTER CHOICE OF SUBJECTS FOR BREEDING PURPOSE. 
Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 5th. 
To Prof. A. Lieutard: 
Sir, — I noticed in the August number of the Review that a 
law has recently been passed prohibiting the breeding from dis¬ 
eased stallions. 
I think this a good move in the right direction. 
But my experience is that for every stallion affected with 
hereditary disease there are ten mares (in proportion to the num¬ 
ber.) In this section if a man has what has been a good mare, as 
soon as she becomes useless for road purposes from navicular dis¬ 
ease, ophthalmia, or anything that ruins her for road work, he 
breeds her. 
It is a well known fact that there are many fine young horses 
that have a natural predisposition to navicular disease that on the 
slightest provocation is developed, when there is no other apparent 
cause than this hereditary predisposition. 
The same can be said of many other diseases. 
It is bad enough to have this condition of things in the human 
family, where it cannot be controlled, but the lower animals are in 
our power and can be controlled. 
But I think it useless to commence at Jhe little end of the horn. 
