. Farmer and stockbreeder . ssisted by monetarygrants while students at a veterinary college. Yourbest plan would be to state your eons case (as con-cisely as you have done to me) in applying to theDean pf the Royal Veterinary College, CamdenTown. Loudon, —Vkt. COW SCOURING AND WASTING(B. A. B.).—(1) The history you give of the casesuggests .lohnes disease, and the temporary successonly of treatment goes to confirm that view. Upto a certain point th subjects of this disease pros-per by giving a hundred grains of sulphate of ironand half an ounce of powdered cinchona bark, butgo back again
. Farmer and stockbreeder . ssisted by monetarygrants while students at a veterinary college. Yourbest plan would be to state your eons case (as con-cisely as you have done to me) in applying to theDean pf the Royal Veterinary College, CamdenTown. Loudon, —Vkt. COW SCOURING AND WASTING(B. A. B.).—(1) The history you give of the casesuggests .lohnes disease, and the temporary successonly of treatment goes to confirm that view. Upto a certain point th subjects of this disease pros-per by giving a hundred grains of sulphate of ironand half an ounce of powdered cinchona bark, butgo back again later. As the flesh is good forhuman food, it is Ivst to butcher them when theyno longer respond to the tonics. (2) Logwood is anastringent and suitable for some forms of diarrhoea,but Johnes disease is a chronic thickening of themucus lining of the bowel, and is never cured, onlypalliated. It is a sort of first cousin to int*atindtube rculosia.—Vet. February 2i, 1919. Al?D CHAM BEE OF AGRICULTURE JOVRfm,. 297. CORRESPONDENCE CATTtE SALE COHBITIOMS Sir,—There has been much discussion amongstbreeders on the above subject, although few onlyhave voiced their sentiments in your columns,and these have been victims of the conditions as they now stand. Looking at the whole matterfrom just a common-sense point of view—andanswering the question, What are the functionsof a pedigree shorthorn cow?—one would say atonce that she should be capable of reproducingherself. If not, then she fails to fill her purposein the herd, and must be placed in the same cate-gory as ordinary commercial cattle grazing forthe block. Yet under the sale conditions of pedi-gree shorthorns many men have purchasedanimals at high prices which have been non-breeders, and were lead to do this by a service-date entered in the catalogue and accepted ingood faith. It may have been printed in goodfaith by the vendors, and in many instances anhonourable vendor has met the purchaser inthe matter, but i
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