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VoT,. IV. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1901. No. 3. 



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CONTENTS. 



District Reports 



Veterinary. 



Horsesickness, by H. Watkins-Pitch- 

 ford, F.R.C.V.S. ... 



Agriculture. 



Limestone Analysis, Alex. Pardy ... 

 Coast Fruit, Interview, by "Ergates" 

 Sugar Cane Experiments in Barba- 

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Agriculture. 



Agriculture in Queensland 

 Agricultural Instruction in Germany 

 Sugar Cane Disease 



Dairy. 



Spaying Dairy Cows 



Dairying in Australia 



Miscellaneous. 



The " Pieter Faure's " Operations 

 Market Reports 



Horsesickness Investigations, 



INTRODUCTOKY. 



By H. Watkins-Pitchpord, F.R.C.V.S. 



A GOOD deal has been written of late 

 about horsesickness, which, though 

 essentially a South African disease, seems 

 by its serious nature to have attracted the 

 attention of scientists in other parts of the 

 world than South Africa. 



Some months ago a treatise from the 

 pen of Professor M'Fadyean, of the Royal 

 Veterinary College, was published, and 



following close upon that appears the 

 report of a lecture delivered by the 

 famous French savant, M. Nocard, dealing 

 with the same subject. 



The recent report upon the disease — or 

 rather in the advance made in its preven- 

 tion—published by the Director of the 

 Cape Bacteriological Institute, will be 

 fresh in the memory. 



