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FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 



[June, 



Fream Memorial Prize.— The Fream Memorial Prize, which is 

 annually awarded by the Ministry to the candidate who obtains the highest 

 marks in the examination for the National Diploma in Agriculture, has been 

 won this year by Mr. Robert Laird of Lawthorn, Irvine, Ayrshire, a student of 

 Glasgow University and the West of Scotland Agricultural College. The 

 value of the prize this year is about £6 10s., which is to be devoted to the 

 purchase of books. 



Report of International Seed Testing" Congress. —Copies of 

 the Report of the International Seed Testing Congress which took place at 

 Copenhagen in June, 1921, will shortly be obtainable from the Secretary, 

 National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge. The 

 price of the Report will be 6/- post free. 



All those who propose to purchase copies should send their orders 

 accompanied by a cheque or Postal Order to the above address as soon as 

 possible, as the supply is limited. 



Leaflets issued by the Ministry.— Since the date of the list given 

 on page 188 of the May issue of the Journal, the following leaflets have been 

 revised, and the one marked with an asterisk will, provisionally, be supplied 

 free : — 



No. 141.— The preparation and packing of Honey for Market. 

 „ 244.— The Destruction of Rats. 

 „ A 316/1— Abridged List of Publications * 

 The following leaflets are no longer supplied free : — 

 No. 381. — How to keep Swine Fever away. 

 „ 383. — Hints on Goat-keeping. 

 Foot-and-Mouth Disease. — Since 23rd April, the date referred to in 

 the Note contained in the Journal for May, 1922 (p. 103), only 16 further 

 outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease have been confirmed, in Great Britain, 

 bringing the total up to 21st May to 1,099, of which 994 were in England, 3 in 

 Wales and 102 in Scotland. Of these 20 outbreaks 1 occurred in Cheshire, 

 5 in Derbyshire, 1 in Denbighshire, 2 in Staffordshire, 8 in the West Riding of 

 Yorkshire, 2 in Berwickshire and 1 in Midlothian. All these cases were dealt 

 with by slaughter of the affected animals and those immediately in contact, 

 involving the slaughter of a total of 401 cattle, 320 sheep and 122 pigs in the 

 20 outbreaks. 



The outbreaks in Berwickshire and Midlothian occurred in free districts, 

 and involved the reimposition of restrictions over an area of 15 miles radius 

 from the infected centre. One of the outbreaks in Staffordshire and 1 in the 

 West Riding, were near the border of a scheduled area, and involved small 

 extensions of the areas under restrictions. Two of the outbreaks, viz., in 

 Denbighshire and Midlothian, occurred on premises which had been previously 

 infected but were freed and re-stocked. 



Since 23rd April further modifications of the restrictions on the movement 

 of animals have been made by Orders freeing large parts of Fife, Lanark, 

 Renfrew, Westmorland, Cheshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire (Lindsey), Lancashire, 

 and parts of the 3 Ridings of Yorkshire, also freeing small areas in North- 

 umberland, Cumberland, Essex, Middlesex, Perthshire, Forfar, Dumbartonshire, 

 Durham, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire. 



The following statement gives the number of outbreaks which have occurred 

 since the commencement of the epidemic in January last up to 21st May, 1922, 

 the date of the last outbreak in each county, the number of infected premises 

 which have been declared free, and the number of animals slaughtered in each 

 county. 



