1906.] A Disease of Sheep in Ayrshire. 



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to be below the average. The Volga Governments, which 

 suffered badly last year, are threatened with heavy crop failures 

 this year too. In the Central Volga region, the basin of the 

 Don and the Don Territory, in the North-Eastern and in the 

 Ural the condition of all the cereal crops appears unsatisfactory 

 and in places bad. The Consul-General for Poland, however, 

 reported on July 13th that the harvest in that country 

 promises this year to be one of the best on record, and a yield 

 •considerably above the average is expected. 



Hungary. — According to the reports published by the 

 Ministry of Agriculture up to 15th July, 1906, the yield of the 

 crops is expected to come up to the estimate in point of 

 quantity, but the quality may leave something to be desired. 

 By an oversight in the last number of this Joitinial, the figures 

 of the estimated yield were given as metric tons of 2,204 lb. 

 instead of metric centners of 220*4 ^b. In the table below 

 they have been converted into English weights ; — 





Estimated Yield 

 for 1906. 



Yield 

 for 1905. 





Cwt. 



Cwt. 



Wheat 



91,473,281 



84,357,769 



Rye 



25,898,180 



27,036,637 



Barley 



26,286,045 



26,757,819 



Oats 



23, 199,461 



22,282,003 



The attention of the Board was recently directed to a disease 

 among sheep in Ayrshire, and one of the Board's superintending 

 veterinary inspectors was directed to make 

 ^ Sheep^in^^ some inquiries into the matter. 

 Ayrshire. disease is usually observed towards 



the latter end of May, in June, and the early 

 part of July, among ewes with lamb at side ; it attacks ewes 

 of all ages, but chiefly the older ones, though it has been seen 

 among hogg ewes, and occasionally in shearling tups. It is said 

 usually to attack ewes in good condition and those doing their 

 lambs well. Tups are but rarely affected, probably in conse- 

 quence of the artificial feeding they receive. It has not been 

 seen in lambs, but all the lambs, except a percentage of ewe 

 lambs for stock, are sold during the month of August ; no 



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