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AND MINING RECORD. 



"^OL. IV. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1901. No. 5. 



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CONTENTS. 



^ PAJE. 



District Reports ... ... 133 



Veterinary. 



Horsesickness (contioued), by H. 



Watkins-Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S. 129 

 Agriculture. 



Port Shepstone District — Interview 

 with Mr. J. J, Maydon, by 

 "Ergates" ... ... 143 



"Paspalum Dilatatum "... ... 153 



Production of Exportable Oranges... 155 

 Garden Notes for May ... ... 151) 



Cattle — 



Sale of Derelict Stock ... ... 158 



Dairy. 



The Co-operation of Creameries ... 132 

 Dairying in Australia : Hon. F. R. 



Moor's Impressions . , ... 137 

 The Model Dairy, Durban 157 



PAGE, 



Miscellaneous. 



Garden Work 132 



The Characteristics of Demerara 



Sugar 1.35 



Forest in War ... ... 147 



Imports of Butter, Margarine, and 



Cheese ... ... ... 158 



Correspondence. 



Effect of Artificial Manuring on 



Wool, by Wm. Cotts & Co. ... 145 

 Insango, by D. Vinden ... ... 147 



Gleanings ... ... ... 13G 



Market Reports ... ... 16 



Horse-sickness I nvestigations, 



(By H. Watkins-Pitchford, F.K.CV.S.) 



{Contin 



THAT the liorse is the subject of attack \ 

 by winged insects needs no demon- 

 stration. One recalls such instances as 

 the Gad-flies, the Horse-flies, and various 

 species of the Siraulidae or Breeze-flies 

 and the , Tsetse-flies, etc., etc. 



The well-understood fact that stabled 

 animals suddenly "turned out" are more 

 subject to the disease than horses which 

 are not stabled or fed, shows in this con- 

 nection the experience that in man a new 

 comer is more liable to mosquito attack 



ued.) 



on exposure in an infected district than 

 the habitual residents of the locality, and 

 that some obscure protective influence is 

 subsequently more or less rapidly de- 

 veloped, though never probably to the 

 degree of complete immunity. 



That this is a tolerance, or adaptation 

 of the host to the parasite, rathei- than a 

 selectiveness on the part of the insect, 

 seems probable by the reaction to the bite 

 in man generally becoming less and less 

 marked with successive attacks of the 



