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to throw salt over each layer of hay as the rick is made up. 

 The quantity required is about 15 lb. of salt to each ton of 

 hay. This to some extent tends to prevent fermentation. 



The quantity of salt added to the food may be at the rate 

 of ij oz. to 2 J oz. per day for cattle, 1 oz. for horses, and 

 J- oz. for sheep. A few pounds of sweet meadow hay well 

 mixed in with hay of inferior quality has also a good effect. 



The use of condiments is not in general to be recom- 

 mended, but in cases where food would otherwise be un- 

 acceptable to live stock, as in the case of inferior hay, the 

 addition of the seed of fennel, fenugreek, aniseed, or carraway 

 may prove advantageous. A mixture of 10 parts of fenu- 

 greek and 1 part each of aniseed and carraway may be given 

 at the rate of 1 oz. to 10 lb. of hay. 



The action taken by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 during 1909 under the Diseases of Animals Acts is described 

 in the Annual Reports [Cd. 5,113, 

 ^DheLes P rice 15 J Prepared by the Chief 



of Animals Veterinary Officer (Mr. S. Stockman) 



and by the Assistant Secretary (Mr. 

 A. W. Anstruther, C.B.). 



Mr. Stockman's report deals with the veterinary questions 

 which arose in connection with the administrative measures 

 for the eradication of swine-fever, glanders, anthrax, and 

 sheep scab, and is accompanied by a report on the experi- 

 mental work carried out in the Laboratory in regard to epi- 

 zootic abortion, trichinosis, Johne's disease, sheep scab, and 

 some other diseases. 



A case is mentioned in which preventive inoculation against 

 swine erysipelas (described in Leaflet 227) was tried on a 

 somewhat large scale, and proved very successful. 



In collaboration with the Veterinary Departments of 

 various African Colonies, observations are being made on the 

 utility of immunising pedigree stock against redwater in this 

 country before shipping them to Colonies where they would 

 be liable to contract the disease on the pastures.* During 

 1909 forty pedigree cattle have been immunised against red- 

 water and shipped to the Transvaal and the East African 

 Protectorate. This brings the total number of animals so 



* Journal. August, 1909, p. 395. 



