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even was observed. To cure them it was mostly sufficient to rub them 

 with some ordinar}' remed^^ In bay horses, cure required a greater length 

 of time. In chestnut horses the treatment had almost alwa3^s to be re- 

 peated. In white horses, above all those with a uniform coat, treatment 

 repeated a second time did not always bring about a cure, which observa- 

 tion was confirmed by other veterinary surgeons. These results were not 

 affected, no matter what drug was resorted to for cure. 



The writer is at a loss to explain exactly the cause of this phenomenon, 

 but he thinks acarids enter more easily and more deeplj^ into the skin con- 

 taining no pigment and are thus more difficult to get at by the curative 

 agent than in animals with pigment. 



879 - A Contribution to the Study of the Treatment with Sugar of Surgical Injuries 



of the Foot in Horses. — Bimbi Paolo, iu II Modemo Zooiatro, Vth Series, Vth Year. 



No. 4, pp. 109-115. Bologna, April 30, 1915. 



A description of several cases of foot injur}- which the writer treated 

 with sugar. His observations agree with those of Prof. Bussaxo (i), as 

 regards the absorbent, antiseptic, cicatrising and cleansing powers of 

 sugar. They also prove that sugar possesses the property of promoting the 

 formation both of the soft tissue of the foot and of the horny tissue. As re- 

 gards this latter property, sugar exceeds all substances in common use 

 hitherto in the treatment of surgical injuries of the foot (Socen's powder and 

 paste, naphthaline, carbolic oil, etc.). 



880 - The Importance of Silage in the Economics of Livestock Feeding, on Farms in feeds 



East Anglia. — JAQUES G., hiThc journal of the Board of AiricuUurr, Vol. XXII, and feeding 

 No. 12, pp. 1249-1252. lyOndon, March 1916. 



The economics of milk and meat production and of livestock feeding 

 generally, during the winter, constitutes at the present time a problem of 

 the utmost importance, especially in East Anglia. The climate there is 

 mainly of a rather dry character, so that the growing of forage roots is un- 

 certain and the farmer is compelled to look for a solution of the problem 

 along other lines, among which the ensilage of green legummous forage 

 has latterly assumed special importance. 



By this means the Author was able, in Norfolk, to produce milk at a 

 cost of about 3 % ^ per gal. for food, or, roughly half of the cost of feeding 

 with roots forming the basis of the ration. A similar reduction was found 

 in the cost of production of meat and breeding stock. 



The saving of nitrogenous manure realised on this method, by using 

 bought phosphates alone for leguminosae grown every other 3'ear, is one of 

 the factors having the greatest influence on the economics of production ; 

 besides which, owing to the conditions prevailing in East Anglia, sa\-ing 

 of labour is no less important owing to its shortage and high cost. The 

 same applies to forage economy in general, above all as regards concen- 

 trates as compared with feeding with a basis of roots. The particulars here 

 reproduced as to the cost of silage, its composition, and the method of feeding 



(i) See B. February 1916, No. 188. (Ed.) 



