128 VALUE OF FISH MEAL AS FODDER FOR CATTLE. 



least be equalled if not exceeded, as one becomes better ac- 

 quainted with it. 



The results obtained by these experiments seem to prove that — 



1. Herring meal is a useful cattle food. 



2. That it would be injudicious to use it largely alone. 



3. That the best results are obtained when suitably mixed 

 with very starchy food. 



4. That it is fairly palatable, as cows take to it as readily 

 as most Tiianufactiired foods, linseed and condimental cakes 

 excepted. 



5. That it appears to be easily digested. 



6. That as far as my experience goes, it has not conveyed 

 any fishy or other unpleasant taste to either the milk or butter. 



At the conclusion of the experiment, I made inquiry at a 

 Norwegian firm at what price they would be agreeable to 

 deliver it at Glasgow, to Avhich they replied, quoting £7, 12s. 6d. 

 per ton in bags. At that price, however, taken in comparison 

 with the value of ordinary feeding stuffs at that date, I fear it 

 would be a difficult matter to get the British farmer to adopt 

 it. Neither its appearance nor taste are in any way inviting, 

 and to get a trade in it established here, it mil have to be 

 much lowered in price to begin with, after which experience 

 and public opinion Avill very soon put it at its proper value. 



QUARTER-ILL, AND ITS PREVENTION BY INOCULATION. 



By William Williams, F.R.S.E. and F.R.C.V.S., Principal of 

 tlie New Veterinary College, Edinburgh. 



QuARTER-iLL, black-leg, strike, symptomatic anthrax, quarter- 

 evil, are a few of the numerous names applied to a specific 

 disease affecting cattle and sheep, and due to the presence of 

 an organism. 



Quarter-ill was, until recently, supposed to be an external 

 manifestation of splenic fever (anthrax), that in young cattle 

 anthrax was alwaj^s thus developed, whereas in older ones the 

 disease was located in the spleen. 



This disease is fortunately not nearly so common in Scotland 

 as it is in England, France, and other countries on the 

 Continent ; but owing to better drainage of the land it is less 

 common than formerly, even in England. 



It occurs much more frequently in young than in old animals, 

 as is well illustrated by the following record by M. Hess of 

 989 cases : — 



