AND MINING RECORD. 



Vol. IV. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1901. No. 7. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAJE. 



District Reports ... ... 196 



Veterinary. 



Horsesickness (continued), by H. 



Watkins-Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S, 193 

 Horse-breeding ... ... l'J9 



Agriculture. 



Ensilage from Poor Land, by 



"Ergates" ... ... 2i0 



Redwater or Tick Fever ... 220 



Poultry. 



Poultry Bugs ... ... ... 198 



Dairy. 



Dairying in Australia : Hon. F. R. 



Moor's Impressions ... ... 201 



Miscellaneous. 



Rain-making ... ... ... 494 



Canadian Farm Implements ... 195 



Pigs Grazing ... ... ... 209 



Shepherds identifying Sheep .. 213 



Market Reports ... ... 200 



Horsesickness investigations. 



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



{Continued.) 



THE theory has been advanced that the 

 disease is contracted by the direct in- 

 halation of spores of the organism. 



One South African investigator liolds 

 the view of tliese spores being transferred 

 by winds at high altitudes and sul)se- 

 quently inhaled upon precipitation. The 

 difficulties in the way of the acceptance 

 of such a theory are obvious, but certain 

 conditions favouring the existence of fun- 



goid growths are also favourable to the 

 outbreak or continuance of the disease. 



Mushrooms and other fungi are known 

 to spring into evidence and spore during 

 the warm moist nights of summer, and it 

 is therefore conceival)le that under such 

 conditions pathogenic spores might be 

 liberated and inhaled hy animals g'ET.'Lviig, 

 and in this way produce t\ie mycosis of 

 the lung suggested. 



