3oo 



Sleepy Disease of Tomatoes. 



[AUG., 



recommend that they should be prescribed by bye-laws, or 

 otherwise enforced. 



However humane and scientific in theory may be the methods 

 of slaughter, it is inevitable that abuses and cruelty may result 

 in practice, unless there is a proper system of official super- 

 vision. This can only be satisfactorily effected in public abat- 

 toirs, which it is hoped will eventually become the only legal 

 places of slaughter ; but the committee are of opinion that 

 much might be done in the meantime by the local urban and 

 rural authorities if they took full advantage of the powers 

 entrusted to them under the existing laws. In this connection 

 special attention is drawn to an interesting memorandum pre- 

 pared for the committee by the Local Government Board. 

 From this it will be seen that private slaughter-houses, even in 

 country districts, are not altogether beyond the reach of the 

 local authority. 



In many towns bye-laws have been drawn up regulating 

 the methods of slaughter in public abattoirs. The committee 

 are of opinion, however, that the clauses dealing with the 

 methods of slaughter could with advantage be further defined, 

 and they suggest certain clauses which they would like to see 

 universally adopted and strictly enforced. 



The sleepy diseaseof tomatoes, although known forsomeseasons 

 in Great Britain, has acquired an increased importance among 

 farmers, owing to the extended cultivation 



young, but the outward manifestations do not necessarily appear 

 at once. The first indication that the tomato is affected is shown 

 in the drooping of the leaves and their bad colour. If the root 

 is split, the woody portion is seen to be of a dingy yellowish 

 brown colour, which becomes more marked if left open for 

 half a day. When the plant has been attacked about three 

 weeks the lower portion of the stem is usually covered with a 



[Cd. 2150. Price is. 3d.] 



the plant in recent years. 

 The plant may be diseased inside quite 



