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about two months before they are put to the bull. Since one 

 cannot be certain that every animal which has aborted will 

 have acquired immunity, it would be advisable also to 

 inoculate the latter to exalt whatever degree of resistance they 

 have acquired from the natural attack, but the animals which 

 have aborted should not be put to the bull for a period of 

 three months. 



A further report will be made on certain other points at a 

 later date. 



In a memorandum on the subject of the Island of Hokkaido, 

 Japan, Mr. E. F. Crowe, Commercial Attache at Tokio, 

 mentions that there are two important 

 British Live Stock and stock farms on the island, one belong- 

 Machinery in Japan. [ n g to the Prefecture, and one to the 

 Department of Agriculture, in addition 

 to two horse-breeding farms belonging to the Government. 

 There are also some large private stock farms. 



The farm belonging to the Prefecture possesses 247 cattle, 

 mostly Ayrshire and Shorthorn ; the amount of butter pro- 

 duced annually is about 7,000 lb., and the dairy machinery 

 is of a London make. Most of the other machinery on the 

 farm, however, is American. 



There are altogether 429 horses, comprising thoroughbreds, 

 trotters, Anglo-Arabs, and Clydesdales, and . about 200 

 Southdown and Cotswold sheep. The Japanese, however, 

 do not care for mutton, and the director of the farm is doubtful 

 whether sheep can be kept successfully for the sake of the wool 

 alone. As regards pigs, the stock consists of 80 Berkshires, 

 and experiments are being made in ham-curing. Poultry 

 are represented by Plymouth Rocks. 



The farm belonging to the Department of Agriculture 

 possesses 80 Simmenthal cattle, 40 Brown Swiss, and 50 Ayr- 

 shires, as well as 170 Southdown and Shropshire sheep. 



Mr. Crowe suggests that there is an opening for British 

 machinery here if it were brought more to the notice of the 

 directors and owners of these and other farms on the island. 

 (Names and addresses can be ascertained, on application at 

 the Office of the Board, 8 Whitehall Place, S.W.) 



