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AND MINING RECORD. 



Vol. IV, FRIDAY. AUGUST IG. 1901. - No. 12. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAJE. 



District Reports ... ... 356 



Veterinary. 



Horsesickness. By H. Watkins- 



Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S. ... 353 



Agriculture. 



Agricultural Analysis. By Archd. 



Pearce ... ... ... 355 



Botanic Gardens, Durban (Illus- 

 trated) ... ... ... 303 



The Mapstone Oat. Various Opinions 365 



Garden Notes... ... ... 368 



Malton Farmers' Association ... 369 



PAGE. 



Horses. 



Breeding of Cattle and Harness 

 Horses. By Frederick Hutchin- 

 son, M.R.O.V.S. (Concluded.) 361 



Correspondence. 



Early Green-manuring. Alex. Pardy, 



F.C.S. ... ... ... 382 



Thoroughbreds and Hackneys. W, 



Henwood... ... ... 383 



Market Reports ... ... 384 



Horsesickness . 



(By H. Waxkins-Pitohfoed, F.E.C.V.S.) 

 ( Continued.) 



WE now pass on to a consideration of 

 the possibiliiy of the disease being 

 due to a cause gaining entrance to tlio 

 system through tlie alimentary canal. 



This I have termed the Ingest ive 

 Theory, from the possibility of infection 

 through the mucous-membrane of the 

 digestive apparatus — when in either a 

 normal or an abnormal condition — in- 

 cluding such possible factors as intestinal 

 parasitism, etc. Infection through the 

 mucous-membrane of the eye will also be 

 considered under this head. 



Popular opinion — based upon no scien- 

 tific grounds, however — inclines to the 

 idea that the disease is "picked up" by an 

 animal when grazing upon food moist 

 with dew. This evidence, as far as it is 

 worthy of consideration, would point to 

 the adoption of the Ingestive Theory, by 

 which, through the medium of the 

 stomach or intestines, the materies morbi 

 gain entrance to the system. 



Such an impression tends to become 

 confirmed upon observing the un- 

 doubtedly specific part played by the in- 



