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than formerly, and knowledge and experience are necessary to 

 render feeding- with substitutes a commercial success. The 

 Board consider that the further facilities for agricultural 

 education and demonstration, which will, they hope, be pro- 

 vided shortly, may be expected to provide further information 

 on this subject. 



A short article appeared in the Board's Journal for 

 December, 19 10, as to the practice of farmers with regard to 

 the disposal of their calves, and an early opportunity will be 

 taken of dealing more fully with the subject in the same 

 publication. A leaflet on the subject of calf-rearing has been 

 issued by the Board, and can be obtained at any time by 

 persons interested in the matter, post free, on application to 

 the Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 8, White- 

 hall Place, London, S.W. 



I am, etc., 



(Sd.) T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



George Grey, Esq., 

 Milfield, 



Alnwick. 



The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the 



relations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis have recently 



_ J A • 1 issued their Final Report (Cd. 5761. 



Human and Animal , . r 



Tuberculosis. Price 6a.) which contams an account 01 



the investigations carried out, and sets 



forth certain conclusions based on the results of the 



Commission's researches. 



In regard to the question whether tuberculosis in animals 



and in man is one and the same disease, it is considered that 



on certain points there is room for difference of opinion, but 



that whether one prefers to regard bovine tuberculosis and 



the cases of tuberculosis in man which are caused by the 



human type of bacilli as varieties of the same disease or 



as independent diseases, there can be no question that human 



tuberculosis is in part identical with bovine tuberculosis. 



The researches of the Commission have proved that 



in a c(Misiderable proportion of rases of tlie human 



disease the lesions contain, and are caused by, bacilli 



