The Vet.' s Plight.
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Motor engineers are busy, but veterinary surgeons are slack. There are fewer and fewer good posts to go round in the horse world, and more and more men free to fill them. Horse-establishment reductions have varied the employment of many hundreds who until recently appeared to enjoy safe and unchallenged positions. and. amongst others, the " vet." is suffering while he " looks round." It is not an easy matter, nowadays, for any horse adviser or consultant to keep his connection together, except in cases where high-class hacks or hunters are chiefly responsible for it; there is next to no new work on the business side, whilst the calls of old customers are dwindling. The skilled horse doctor should, we think. make himself known to our friends of the insurance world ; there are, unfortunately, still frequent collisions between road motors and horse-drawn vehicles, and assistance is needed for the equitable settlement of claims. No other openings suggest themselves to us, so far as the United Kingdom goes, and we fear they will fall short of the sum total which must be required to maintain old-time income. If, however, any reader of this journal has, at the present time. occasion to demand the regular services of an able and experienced veterinary surgeon. by reason of the temporary survival of a large stod of horses, we shall be most happy to serve the interests of both sides by placing the parties in communication.