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Sheep Scab. 



[FEB., 



cinders and lime along the rows. Frequently invasion comes 

 from a neighbouring hedge or wood. When this occurs a trench 

 should be dug and filled with gas-lime or tar to prevent the 

 advance of the mollusca. Thrushes should be encouraged, as 

 they destroy numbers of snails at all times of the year. 



Both ducks and fowls do much good in keeping down both 

 classes of these molluscan pests, and should be turned on 

 the land whenever possible during and after an attack — ducks 

 especially where slugs are the culprits, fowls when snails have 

 been in abundance. This would be one of the best ways of 

 clearing a hop-garden of molluscan enemies. 



Fred. V. Theobald. 



SHEEP SCAB. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have issued the fol- 

 lowing circular to Local Authorities in Great Britain under the 

 Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903 : — 



4, Whitehall Place, S.W., 



30th January, 1905. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 to advert to the Report of the Departmental Committee appointed 

 by the Board to investigate experimentally and to report upon 

 certain questions connected with the dipping and treatment of 

 sheep (Cd. 2258),* and to the Minutes of Evidence taken before 

 that Committee (Cd. 2259),* an< ^ to state, for the information of 

 your Local Authority, that after giving very careful considera- 

 tion to the recommendations of the Committee, the Board have 

 determined that the time has now arrived for energetic action 

 with a view to bring about the speedy eradication of Sheep Scab 

 in this country. 



2. They have accordingly made three Orders relating to this 

 disease, copies of which are herewith enclosed,! and in trans- 



* These are Parliamentary Publication-, and can be purchased either directly or 

 through any bookseller from Messrs. Wyman & Sons, Limited, Fetter Lane, 

 London, E.C., at the price of 3d. and 2s. 4d. respectively. 



t Copies of these Orders, viz., Sheep Scab Order of 1905 (No. 6879). Sheep 

 Scab (Compulsory Dipping Areas) Order of 1905 (No. 6880), and Sheep Scab 

 (Regulation of Movement) Order \of 1905 (No. 6881), can be obtained on 

 .application. 



