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THE AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



Weekly Rinderpest Reporim 



28th JANUARY, 1902. 



Ladysmith Division. 



KIRKINTULLOCH. — No fresh out- 

 break amongst old infected troop. 

 Amongst Liana's cattle there have been 

 five deaths and two are sick. 



Buy's Farm,— Seven dead ; thirty sick. 

 Kleinfontein (adjoining Buy's farm .— 

 Natives cattle : fifteen dead out of seven- 

 teen. This outbreak was not reported. 

 The native is being prosecuted. 



Farms Hillcrest, Kleinfontein, Swaart- 

 kloof, Doornkraal, Macpherson's farm 

 and Brinley. — No fresh cases or deaths. 



Vlaakplaats.— Seven deaths and seven 

 fresh cases. 



Van Reenen's, Brakwal. — One death ; 

 no fresh cases. Reproach : No fresh cases 

 or deaths. 



Newcastle Division. 



Normandien Area. — This area is now 

 clean with the exception of two small 

 herds of native stock on farms Elands- 

 klip and Doornpoort ; two deaths on 

 former and four deaths on latter farm 



Ingogo.— Two fresh outbreaks amongst 

 native stock. The cattle have been in- 

 oculated. 



Charlestown.— No fresh outbreaks re- 

 ported. 



Newcastle. — The disease appeared here 

 on the 25th inst. amongst the Public 

 "Works Department oxen. The oxen have 

 been inoculated. 



Dundee Division, 



Vellivreda.— Fresh outbreak reported 

 here amongst 160 head of cattle belong- 

 ing to C. Massopp ; fifteen deaths and ten 

 recoveries. Outbreak due to inoculation 

 with raw bile. 



Krantskop Division. 



Jammerdaal. — No fresh cases. 



Frogmore. Fresh outbreak reported on 

 the 22nd. 370 head of cattle on farm in 

 three separate troops ; one troop only 

 affected ; fourteen dead, twenty sick. This 

 farm adjoins Jammerdaal. 



Nkandhla, Zululand.— One death, no 

 fresh cases. The disease exists in the 

 Transvaal, just across the border, at native 

 kraals. 



S. B. WOOLLATT, 

 Principal Veterinary Surgeon. 



Locust Destruction, 



naLONFL FRIEND ADDISON has 

 \J very kindly furnished the Agricul- 

 tural Department with a quantity of 

 treacle for free distribution, for the pur- 

 poses of Locust destruction. 



The treacle in question is stored in bulk 

 at the Railway Station, and farmers and 

 others requiring any for locust destruc- 

 tion should apply to me. 



Casks or drums will have to be supplied 

 by applicants. 



CLAUDE FULLER, 

 Government Entomologist. 



Department of Agriculture, 



Pietermaritzburg, 27th January, 1902. 



Affricuitural SitowSm 



Grey town, Thursday 29th May ; J. M. 

 Handley, hon. secretary. 



Estcourt, Wednesday, 4th June; Her- 

 bert Blaker, J.P., hon. secretary. 



Maritzburg, Thursday, Friday, and 

 Saturday, June 26th, 27th, and 28th ; A. 

 Whittle Herbert, hon. secretary. 



Noodsberg Road, Thursday, August 

 14th ; F. Reichft, hon. secretary. 



Sir W. F. Napier tells a curious story of the 

 great battle of Chillianwallah. A sergeant of 

 artillery, or of dragoons, a man of great strength 

 and stature, got mixed up with the enemy in a 

 charge. His horse an entire, and " one of those 

 vicious brutts so common in our ranks," attacked 

 an enemy's horse, and the beasts fought so 

 furiously, biting, striking, and kicking, that the 

 sergeant was unable to use his sword to any pur- 

 pose, with the result that both hisi arms were 

 lopped ofE. 



