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Notes on the Weather and Crops. [July, 



The data given on the next page are published by the 

 Agricultural Department of the University 

 Composition of of Leeds. They have been compiled by 

 Various Farm Foods. Dr. Charles Crowther from various 

 sources and refer, in all cases, to foods 



of average quality. 



The President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 by a minute dated 22nd June, 1907, has appointed a Com- 

 mittee to enquire into the nature of 

 Committee on distemper in dogs in Great Britain and 



Distemper in Dogs, the methods of its infection, and to report 

 whether any, and if so, what preventive 

 or remedial measures, exclusive of ordinary medical treatment, 

 can with advantage be taken with respect to it. 



The Committee is constituted as follows : — The Duke of 

 Beaufort, The Lord Middleton, The Lord Leconfield, Sir John 

 McFadyean, M.B., B.Sc, M.R.C.V.S., Mr. Edward Barclay, 

 Mr. Stewart Stockman, M.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Officer 

 to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and Mr. William 

 Musgrave Wrought on. 



The Chairman of the Committee will be The Lord Middleton, 

 and Mr. James Ralph Jackson, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary 

 Inspector, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4, Whitehall 

 Place, S.W., will be secretary. 



The cost of the enquiry will be defrayed b}' subscription 

 and guarantees, and no charge in respect of it will fall upon 

 public funds. 



It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to state that the weather during June has been 

 exceedingly ungenial. During the last week of May it was cold, dull and unsettled, 



the warmth being "deficient " throughout England, except 

 Notes On the Weather i n the south-west. Rainfall was "heavy" everywhere, 

 and the Crops in June. exce P t in England N.E., where it was "very heavy," 



while sunshine was universally " very scanty," except 

 in Scotland, where it was merely "scanty." With this week the Spring of 

 1907 came to a close. On making a comparison with last year it appears that the 

 most characteristic feature has been the number of weeks of " heavy " rain in the 

 midland and eastern parts of England. In Scotland the position is reversed, the 

 number of weeks of "heavy" rain being fewer this year than last. 



The summer began in a most unpropitious manner. During the first week of 

 June bright sunshine was less than the average over all parts of the kingdom, the 

 percentage of possible duration being only 8 in England N.W., and 13 in Scotland 

 N. Rainfall was generally less than the average, but in the north and west 

 considerably above, and several thunderstorms occurred; 



