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Report on the Farm Prize Competition. 



diverging to Ohio and Illinois, and finally reached New Orleans. The last 

 reports from Baltimore are to the eflect that the disease is still travelling 

 southward. 



All the accounts which have been received at the Veterinary Department 

 refer to the generally benign character of the disease when animals are placed 

 under proper treatment, and only record any serious fatality when the sick 

 horses were improperly treated and badly managed. 



As in this country, the disease was found to yield to the stimulant system 

 of treatment, assisted by good nursing ; and as might be expected serious 

 results followed the use of depletive measures, and exposure of animals to 

 changes of temperature. 



The traffic requirements in the several States seem to have necessitated the 

 employment of sick animals, but it was always found that this injudicious 

 proceeding had the effect of increasing the severity of the disease and consider- 

 ably adding to the number of deaths. 



The distemper seems to have subsided almost as rapidly as it extended in 

 the various States, and all the authorities who have investigated the subject 

 agi-ee in the conclusion that the affection did not sjDread in consequence of the 

 presence of any specific virus or contagium, but rather under the influence of 

 an " abnormal atmospheric wave," 



VIII. — Report on the Farm Prize Competition, 1873. By HuGH 

 Stephenson, of Dene House, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



For the two prizes of lOOZ. each, offered by the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society for the best managed farm in the districts of Holder- 

 ness and the Wolds, the latter failed to bring forward a sufficient 

 number of entries to warrant the Society to continue the compe- 

 tition. 



For the former district there was an entry of four, a very great 

 contrast to last year's competition in Wales ; but though the 

 number of competitors was small, their farms were all well 

 managed, and all were worthy of the prize. 



Name of Tenant. 



Name and Situation of 

 Fann. 



No. of 

 Acres. 



William G.Walgate {^Huu'"' '!^^*^^.°.'''"?' l^^^ 



t 



George England .. {^^g*^*i?' . . ^°'^''*''^: } 



Nature of Soil. 



Proprietor. 



Chiefly strong 



{AH strong ex-j 

 cept 20 acres 

 of sand 



Charles Lambert . . Sunk Island, Hull .. , 596 



fStrons 



salt"! 



\ water warp / 



St. Thomas's Hos- 

 , pital. 



W.F.Bethel, Esq. 



The Crown. 



Peter Dunn .. .. {^^ffesTho^nT^' ^'°"}' ^^^ Chiefly heavy j W. F. Bethel, Esq. 



The conditions attached to the offer of the prize were as 

 follows : — 



