1904.] Recent Publications of the Board. 



i3i 



culture and agricultural clubs and societies, inviting them to 

 nominate a member who would be prepared to give evidence 

 to show that preferential treatment, as regards rates or in any 

 other respect, is apparently given by the railway companies in 

 Great Britain for the conveyance of foreign and Colonial, farm, 

 dairy, and market garden produce from foreign ports or home 

 ports to the principal urban centres as compared with the 

 treatment of similar home produce conveyed from home ports 

 and intervening and other inland stations to the same centres. 



In order that the Committee may be in a position to make 

 arrangements to hear evidence according to the localities 

 affected and to avoid unnecessary repetition of evidence, the 

 Committee desire that in the first place particulars of proposed 

 evidence should be tabulated and submitted on a form which 

 has been prepared specifying in detail the particular instances 

 which it is desired to bring under the notice of the Committee 

 The Committee hope to receive the assistance of all parties 

 interested, in order to make the inquiry as complete and 

 effective as possible, and they wish it to be widely known 

 that evidence will be accepted not only from Chambers 

 of Agriculture and other associations but from all parties 

 who consider that they have grounds for complaint. Com- 

 munications on the subject should be addressed to Mr. E. 

 C. Stoneham, 7, Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W. 



In view of the exceptionally wet character of the weather 

 during the year 1903, and of the apprehension expressed in 

 several quarters that the fluke parasite, 



Recent 



which causes liver-rot, might increase to 



Publications — — iiVV " x ~ Vj 



of the Board. sucn an extent as to be a serious menace 

 to the sheep stock of the country, the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries thought it desirable to 

 issue detailed information concerning possible preventive and 

 remedial measures against this disease. In consequence of the 

 severe outbreak of rot which occurred in 1880-2, the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England undertook a special inquiry 

 into the subject, the results of which may still be held to form 



