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and clearly that any man may recognise tlie form of disease from 

 which his unhealthy stock is suffering ; it also prescribes the 

 treatment to be applied for cure as well as the measures necessary 

 to prevent infection and to keep cattle in health. 



In arboriculture the introduction or extended propagation of 

 the following trees, some of which have been already noticed, has 

 been effected or stimulated, in every case (except that of cork- 

 oak, which is as yet doubtful) with more or less complete success : 

 Mahogany, baobab, caoutchouc-yielding trees and plants, carob, 

 Eucalyptus globulus and other Australian gums, prosopis of kinds, 

 Spanish chestnut, cork-oak, algarroba, and the Arabian date 

 palm. 



In many of these cases the initiative came from elsewhere, but 

 in every case this Department assisted and promoted every reason- 

 able proposal so far as was possible without any machinery of its 

 own, and with the very limited means at its disposal. 



London : Printed by W. H, Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place* 



