4 1 o Saddle and Sirloin. 



eleven cows and heifers, some of them calves when 

 the plague began. He believes that preventive mea- 

 sures failed, simply because, when the grass came, he 

 placed his cattle in the field for a short time daily, out 

 of the influence of chlorine gas. In this belief he is 

 confirmed by the experience of his near neighbour, 

 Lord Egerton of Tatton, whose milch cows and feed- 

 ing stock were subjected to the same treatment, but 

 never allowed to leave the shippons. Hence, in spite 

 of a severe attack of the plague on several farms in 

 the vicinity of the Tatton Home Farm, they all escaped, 

 while some of the West Highland bullocks in the park 

 went down. Chlorine gas was quite the fashion in 

 Cheshire, and as farmers were very "jealous" of con- 

 tagion, every rural policeman carried, at the sugges- 

 tion of Professor Stone, a wooden kit with him, as 

 well as a waterproof bag, for disinfecting his dress. 

 The kit had four compartments for bottles of muriatic 

 acid, chlorate of potash, Stockholm tar, and " soap 

 and sundries." The two former generate chlorine gas 

 by contact, and a few drops of the tar poured upon 

 some hot cinders will disinfect boots or clogs when 

 suspended on a poker within reach of its vapour. The 

 inspection dress is made of strong calico and fashioned 

 like a diver's, and it is fumigated and made ready for 

 the next visit by putting it into the bag along with a 

 perforated box in which chlorine gas has been gene- 

 rated and retained on pumice stone.* 



Duke 3rd from Mr. Adkins (Millcote), Cleopatra 9th by Lord Oxford 

 from Mr. Harwood (Winterford), Grand Duke of Essex 4th by Grand 

 Duke 4th from Mr. Mcintosh (Havering Park), and Twelfth Duke 

 of Thorndale, bred by Mr. S. Thome of Thorndale, U.S. The last 

 named was one of the animals offered at the Windsor sale, and after- 

 wards purchased from Mr. Thomas when in London. 



* Mr. Davies' shippon is at the junction of three roads leading 

 to Chester, Warrington, and Knutsford, and in the centre of a district 

 through which the plague wended the same fatal way that it did in the 

 last century — commencing near Warrington and coming along the low 

 ground. In the small township of Tabley alone 662 beasts died ; 41 



