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ploughed. The former application secured practical im- 

 munity from the disease, and the experiment is considered 

 to prove clearly that a dressing of 2\ tons of lime, applied 

 to the soil soon after the removal of the diseased crop, was 

 very much more effective than a similar dressing applied to 

 the stubble in 1899. It is accordingly suggested that land 

 affected by " finger and toe " should be dressed with from 

 two to four tons per acre of common lime, according to the 

 soil and the virulence of the attack, as soon as possible after 

 the diseased crop has been removed. 



The Roumanian Government have issued a provisional state- 

 ment of a census of domestic animals, 



^n r Roum^ia S taken in the month of December, jqoo. 



The total number of horses was 865,000, 

 classified as follows : — 47,000 stallions, 388,000 geldings, 

 339,000 mares, and 91,000 colts. There were 7,000 donkeys 

 and 500 mules. The number of cattle amounted to 2,589,000 

 —viz.: 24,000 bulls, 1,125,000 bullocks, 751,000 cows (of 

 which more than half were dairy cattle), 360,000 heifers, 

 285,000 calves, and 44,000 buffaloes. Sheep and lambs 

 numbered 5,644,000, goats 233,000, and pigs 1,710,000. 



A meeting of district analysts holding appointments 

 iinder the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893, was 

 held at the Chemical Society on May 

 Formation of 1 5th, Dr. J. A. Voelcker, M.A., presiding, 



^uml C Anatysts 1; in the unavoida ble absence of Dr. T. E 

 Association. Thorpe, C.B., F.R.S. Mr. F. J. Lloyd 

 read letters from a number of analysts who 

 were unable to be present, but were in favour of the formation 

 of the proposed association. He then briefly pointed out 

 that England was almost alone in having no official Agri- 

 cultural Analysts' Association. In the United States such an 



