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The following resolutions were offered by President "Ware, 

 and adopted with but one or two dissenting votes: 



Resolved: That it is the sense of this meeting that the pres- 

 ent "Dog Law" does not meet the requirements of the public 

 of Essex Count}'. 



Therefore, Resolved: That the Essex Agricultural Society, 

 in public meeting assembled, respectfully petitions the Legisla- 

 ture now in session, to amend the present Dog Law so that all 

 dogs shall be restrained from going at large, except in charge of 

 the owner, and be kept upon their owner's premises as other 

 domestic animals are required to be. 



Mr. Ware was appointed a committee of one to appear before 

 the Legislative Committee on Agriculture upon the foregoing 

 resolutions. 



The 65th Institute was held at the Town Hall, Bradford, 

 Feb. 13, 1889, on the subject of "The Parisites of our Domestic 

 Animals," by Prof. C. A. Fernald, of Mass. Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Amherst, who gave a very interesting and instructive illus- 

 trated lecture on disagreeable subjects, and one that cannot be 

 reported here with any benefit, it should be listened to to be ap- 

 preciated. He described the life of pork and beef tape worms, 

 and advised the avoidance of all rare meat, and urged eating 

 meat well cooked, pin worms, round worms, hair snakes, trichina, 

 and a tape worm found in sheep and clogs, closing with allu- 

 sion to the cause of gapes in fowls by a queer shaped worm of 

 three parts, similar to a caulker's mallet, it being a long tube 

 with two shorter tubes at the top. These worms clogs the 

 windpipe of the fowl, causing suffocation. There is a male and 

 a female. The eggs escape upon the ground disintegrate, and 

 are retaken into the system by its lodging upon their food. The 

 eggs hatch quickly in water. Kobbold has a remedy for this. 

 He takes a quill, tears off one side, then taking the chicken, 

 puts the quill thus prepared down its throat. By turning the 

 quill round, and withdrawing it, quite a large number of these 

 worms can be taken out. The danger in using this remedy is 

 that large masses of worms may be detached and fall down 



