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Importation and other Regulations, [nov., 



S, U. Pickering, M.A., F.R.S., and S. H. Collins, M.Sc, has been 

 issued as a Supplement to the present number of the Journal. 



The object of the papers is to draw attention to the liability of 

 errors arising in drawing deductions from agricultural experiments 

 and to emphasise the points to which special care and attention should 

 be devoted in preparing schemes for the carrying out of such experi- 

 ments. It is hoped that they will be of service to the Governing Bodies 

 of Agricultural Colleges and to County Education Authorities in under- 

 taking such experiments, and also to agricultural writers and farmers 

 by leading them to appreciate the value which should be attached to 

 the results obtained. 



The Supplement may be obtained at the Office of the Board, 

 8 Whitehall Place, S.W., price /\d., post free; it is supplied to sub- 

 scribers to the Journal without extra charge. 



No outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease had up to October ioth been 

 discovered on premises outside the two adjoining parishes of Middlezoy 

 and Othery, near Bridgwater, but within the 

 Foot and Mouth former parish the existence of the disease had 

 Disease in Somerset. b Y that date been confirmed amongst the 

 stock of nine different owners, whilst one 

 outbreak had been detected in the parish of Othery in marshes which 

 adjoin those in the neighbouring parish in which the disease has 

 appeared. 



The outbreaks (ten in all) have occurred amongst cattle pastured 

 in the marshes within a radius of about a mile of the village of 

 Middlezoy, and the later outbreaks are believed to be connected directly 

 or indirectly with the original outbreak which occurred at Manor Farm 

 on September 29th. 



All the cattle and sheep pastured in the fields in which the disease 

 has appeared have been slaughtered by order of the Board, and in 

 certain cases cattle in the adjoining pastures have also been slaughtered 

 with a view to prevent the further spread of the disease. 



Animals in the vicinity have been kept under daily observation by 

 the Veterinary Inspectors of the Board with a view to the early 

 detection of any further cases of the disease. 



In view of the fact that the disease has been confined to a com- 

 paratively restricted area, an Order was made which came into force 

 on October nth modifying substantially the restrictions in force in the 

 Scheduled District as regards those parts of it more remote from the 

 outbreaks. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Importation of Live Stock into the United States.— Regulations 

 regarding the inspection and quarantine of live stock imported into the 

 United States were issued on May 3rd, 191 1, 

 Importation an d supersede all previous regulations on the 



and other Regulations subject. The following is a summary of these 

 regulations in so far as they relate to live 

 stock imported from the United Kingdom. 



