,1-1847.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETT1 



SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND 

 JJ3& *"**>* M " tin 9 for the Sl 



** Profewor Low presented to the me 



"^riniens of guano from Malacca and the neigh- 

 Sj*£;«. -Vo. 1. existed of the ex = en n t ; 



S^ I ^^vFlfr< , ! , wlidOTlV n^rfT he th?t 



jxia. — The Secretary read the follow 

 1 from the Board of Trade :— 



•Sir,— I am directed by the Lords of the Committee 

 ir.w C ur.cil fur Trade to transmit to you, for the 

 tantion of the Highland and Agricultural Society 



t of a despatch from 



nffonnce of the Epizootie amongsl 

 aakof W.llachia. I am, sir, your obec 



•To tie Secretary of the II. and A. Society." 

 'My Lord,— I am sorry to have to re 

 Eraootie among the horned cattle has, di 

 n weeks, broken out with fearful force 

 *eh occurred during the spring and 



w dmppeariDg ; since the end of July, however, i 



■Hatty has returned equal to last year, and thre 



tooths of the cattle which had been Bpared from la 



fcima to a malady for which no cu 



■ 

 SwJ?mEft case 1 generally were fatal, unless the proper re- 



325122* ?. P°- 5?t serum ^n^lymph'bSen 





detecting the first onset of the <iis, t ;isc. If tin- .-i.m ; , ! ;l 

 coat, cough, and increased action of the heart and lungs, i 





iSS; 



W^ U h ^8enerally speaking, so fatal in horses as in'cattle! 



*£*• hi, • L * nar kslu> e t whe^h 4 h e Professor ref erred to 

 5|£t^°jj*e mil k, ee or W feedi Ve ' h ? obserTed an J cough or 



•CSS" 01 ? action' hu Z Ba firin IT, if necessary. After 

 ^J^ Bj follovring thisTours^th 611, ^ ,? h ° Uld be 



Lodge, in Zetland :— 

 " " £ndT?w?p£f n 2rf Twsac*™ 





- 

 left to go to w 0* y«ar, as not 



a seed-stalk appeared. It n, . 



- 







Miscellaneous. 



ivation of Beet-t 

 kerque having addreae 

 :rce, demanding 



production of corn. 

 land (nearly 140,000 I 



00 hectares of good land (nearly 

 Beet-root ; and'that is about the one-bundredtb part 

 lie soil devoted to thr cultivation of com. the tr-ta. 

 .•■'.:. t: : 

 yield annually 69,000,000 bc-tolitres. If this one-bun- 

 dredth part, adds the Minister, had been sown wta 

 Wheat, it would have yielded about 6,000,000 beet. ; 



"""tergwrt obstacles 1 .' The Govern ™* n t»*^™f^ 



Ht 5 t! f T n( l t the t ,n0S V 



;-.; ■•■■■■ •■'• ■ : ' 



nches in height ;tl, 



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MJ hens lay all* 



