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obtained. I am under the impression 

 that they went even further than to 

 state " that animals inoculated with the 

 bile sometimes contraeted the disease in 

 a fatal form." I believe (unfortunately 

 I cannot refer to the original) that their 

 assertion was tantamount to a denial of 

 all protective action, and an assertion 

 that the disease was conveyed by the 

 bile. Dr. Krause was at first a strong 

 supported of Koch's opinion as to the im- 

 possibility of conveying the disease by 

 rinderpest bile. He then met with an 

 unfortunate experience, against which he 

 had been warned, should he operate in an 

 infected area, and without any attempt 

 at serious investigation he veered com- 

 pletely round. The matter, however, is 

 not of much immediate importance. 



Koch's discovery has been of incalculable 

 value, but we can now produce serum 

 which is more handy and more efficacious, 

 and for the present there is no need to 

 fall back upon the bile. Quite recently, 

 also, it has done good service, and would 

 have done more had not the ungrounded 

 fear of spreading the disease prevented 

 its proper appreciation. Probably in the 

 future it may again be necessary to fall 

 back on the bile, and then I hope it will 

 be practised as the inventer intended, and 

 in the only way in which it is capable of 

 producing its full effect, viz., by inoculat- 

 ing in clean herds to produce an immune 

 cordon. — I am. Sir, yours obediently, 



GEORGE TURNER. 

 Pretoria, Dec. 27th, 1901. 



Mapstone Oats s Further Reports » 



Aug. Kohrs, Middledrift, Seven 

 Oaks. 



UNDER date of 9th January, Mr. Kohrs 

 reports as follows : — The sample of 

 Mapstone oats — 60 lbs. — was poor looking 

 seed. It was planted on the 21st of 

 March, 1901, covering half an acre .of 

 ground, manured with 150 lbs. of Fison's 

 corn and hay fertiliser. During the 

 winter it was irrigated four times, and 

 the crop was reaped 28th October last, 

 yielding 568 lbs. of good seed, and 1,800 

 lbs. of straw. 



Adjoining the Mapstone oats, half an 

 acre was put in with Algerian oats. This 

 received exactly the same treatment, and 

 yielded the same results to within a few 

 pounds. 



As I feel sure that there is no difference 

 between Mapstone and Algerian, I am 

 sending samples of both, and hope for a 

 report upon the subject. 



The elevation of the farm is about 

 3,600 feet, and I have noticed that the 

 Mapstone oat ripens about 10 days earlier 

 than the Algerian, when the latter is 

 grown from imported seed. In further 

 evidence of this, I might observe that the 

 Algerian crop, from seed produced here 

 in 1900, was in ear before the imported 

 seed of the same variety. This, and the 



fact that when growing no one could see 

 any difference between the two oats, con- 

 firms me in my opinion that they are one 

 and the same. The earlier ripening of 

 crops from locally raised seed has also 

 been noticed by a friend of mine. 



Regarding the Algerian oats planted 

 upon my farm, this has run to about 

 5,000 lbs. to every bag planted, and turned 

 out real good forage with no rust. 



In both the Mapstone and Algerian 

 crop a little rust could be seen in the 

 ripening stage. Cape oats planted under 

 the same conditions last winter gave 2,000 

 lbs. of forage to every bag planted, and 

 they rusted very much. I might add 

 that rust was at its worst on all oats 

 planted here in 1900. 



The affinity noticed by Mr. Kohrs be- 

 tween the Mapstone and Algerian oats 

 has been remarked upon by other farmers, 

 and it is impossible from a cursory ex- 

 amination of the samples submitted, both 

 of seed and straw, to pick out any dis- 

 tinctive (jharacteristics. Attention is, how- 

 ever, drawn to the accompanying report 

 of Mr. Mapstone's, which has been written 

 at my special request. 



So far as the producing an earlier 

 ripening crop by locally raised seed is 



