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the owner or person in charge of a bovine animal exposed in a market, 

 fairground or saleyard which appears to him to be (i.) suffering from 

 tuberculosis of the udder, indurated udder, or other chronic disease of 

 the udder; or (ii.) emaciated from tuberculosis, require the animal to 

 be removed from the market, fairground, or saleyard to the premises 

 from which it was brought thereto, or if the owner or person in charge 

 so desires, to any other suitable premises, to be specified in the notice. 



Cleansing and Disinfection.- — This subject is dealt with in Article 11, 

 under which the occupier of any premises on which there has been a 

 cow suffering from tuberculosis of the udder or giving tuberculous milk, 

 or a bovine animal emaciated from tuberculosis, is, if so required in 

 writing by an Inspector of the Local Authority, to cleanse and disinfect 

 at his own expense, and to the satisfaction of the Inspector, that part 

 of any shed or other erection in which the animal has recently been 

 placed or kept. 



Other articles in the Order provide for penalties for contravention, 



&c. 



Schemes for Manurial Experiments. — The schemes for manurial and 

 other experiments which were submitted to the Board in 1903 by the 

 Recent Publications Agricultural Education Association have re- 

 ^ ^ e cently been reprinted, and copies can be 



, „ . . ,. obtained free on application at the Office of 



a a 1 1 J?tf ril the Board ' 4 ' Whiteha11 Place > London - s w - 



The object of these schemes was to lay down 

 some general method by which the more simple problems of manuring 

 could be approached, in the expectation that by means of trials thus 

 carried out on the same lines in different parts of the country general or 

 average results might be obtained. 



Most of these schemes are of so simple a character, and so direct and 

 practical in their objects as to be capable of general adoption by farmers, 

 with a view to ascertain the needs of their own land. Thus the first 

 experiment is directed to the manurial necessities of soils, i.e., to 

 ascertain what type of manure the soil requires most. Other experiments 

 aim at showing the manurial requirements of meadow and grass land, 

 of swedes, potatoes, wheat, oats, and barley, and of crops in rotation. 

 A specimen is given of a trial designed to show the residual value of 

 manures, and also of one to test the value of lime in preventing " finger- 

 and-toe." 



By carefully carrying out these experiments in regard to any crop, a 

 farmer would ascertain what was the leading requirement of the crop 

 on that particular soil, what was the effect of farmyard manure, what 

 was the best artificial manure or mixture of manures, and other points 

 which are so greatly affected by the character of the soil on which the 

 crop is grown. 



Report on Experiments on the Manuring of Mangolds. — This pub- 

 lication, which is referred to on p. 239, gives a summary of experiments 

 conducted in Great Britain in past years in regard to the manuring of 

 mangolds. The general results are given of trials showing the effect of 

 farmyard manure alone, of artificial manures alone, of farmyard and 

 artificial manures combined, and of common salt. This publication may 



