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The repetition of this process, after the prescribed lapse of a 

 couple of years, will bring the total outlay on the acre to about 

 3/., a considerable expense, no doubt, but the increased luxuri- 

 ance of the herbage appears to me to nearly repay it ; though it 

 will be observed that 1 am not speaking of it in the light of an 

 ordinary farming operation. 



In cases where I have, on ploughing the exposed soil of the 

 ridge, found the subsoil inferior, I have tJiroicn forward the top- 

 soil (as in double-digging), and cast out the second spit of earth 

 on the adjacent furrows, where its exposure, with crusliing and 

 harrowing, quickly mellow it ; and I iiave never, in the worst 

 case, seen any but good effect upon the undergi-owth of herbage 

 in the furrow. Of course, I am speaking throughout of grass- 

 land which has been drained, and where the crown of the ridge 

 is found too dry. 



Wroxhall Ahhey, March, 1S5G. 



II. — Contagious Disease among Cattle in Mecklenhurg. 



Foreign Office, June 12th, 1856. 

 Sir, — I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, 

 to be laid before the President and Council of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society, the accompanying copy of a Despatch from Colonel 

 Hodges, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg, enclosing a 

 Second Report from the British Vice-Consul at Liibeck, respecting 

 the contagious disease that has broken out among the cattle in 

 Mecklenburg. 1 am. Sir, &c,, 



The Secretary of the E. HaiMMOND. 



Boyal Agricultural Society. 



Lubeck, May 30th, 1856. 

 Sin, — In my Despatch of the 17th instant I had the honour to 

 report, that in consequence of a contagious disease having broken 

 out among the horned cattle in Mecklenburg, the Liibeck Govern- 

 ment had issued sanatory regulations, to be enforced in case the 

 disease should appear within the Lubeck territory, and, as a pre- 

 cautionary measure, had enjoined that no horned cattle should be 

 allowed to enter the Liibeck territory from the Duchies of Meck- 

 Icnburg-Schwcrin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, except such as were 

 certified by the competent authorities to be entirely free from the 

 disease. 



After consulting several German works on the subject, and, 

 among others, the excellent ' Tldcrheilkunde^ by Professor Bau- 

 meister and Dr. Duttenhofer (1 vol. 8vo. Stuttgart, 1844), I am 

 impressed with the conviction that the measures adopted to pre- 



