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included in the annual occupiers' schedules, a total of 579,133 

 holdings is credited to this group, and these plots are now 

 distinguished into 37,143 acre plots and 541,990 smaller 

 units of cultivation. These figures show some continued 

 increase of this minor type of holding, but a less rapid advance 

 than on the last occasion of inquiry, in 1890, and instances are 

 quoted where there has been some check to the extension 

 of allotment-holding in certain counties. 



Swine Fever. — Second Report of Departmental Committee 

 appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire into 

 Swine Fever. [C. — 8372.] Price $d. 



The first Report of the Committee now investigating the 

 etiology, pathology, and morbid anatomy of the diseases 

 called Swine Fever had reference only to one of the diseases 

 which are classed as swine fever, viz. : — the disease which 

 has for many years been prevalent in this country, and is now 

 described as swine fever in the Orders of the Board of Agri- 

 culture. Two other diseases were incidentally referred to — 

 viz. : [a) pneumonia of the pig with or without swine fever 

 lesions in the alimentary canal ; and [b) swine erysipelas. 

 The results of investigations made in connection with these 

 diseases have recently been published in a Blue Book, which 

 contains the following information : — 



Pneumonia of the Pig. 



An important part of the inquiry undertaken by the Com- 

 mittee had for its object to determine whether the pneumonia 

 which is occasionally encountered in pigs affected with swine 

 fever is a lesion caused by the swine fever bacillus, or 

 whether there occurs in this country an infectious disease of 

 the pig, distinct from swine fever, and having pneumonia for 

 its most characteristic lesion. 



A very fatal infectious pneumonia is at the present time 

 recognised by continental and American veterinary authors 

 as a disease perfectly distinct from sw^ine fever. This disease 

 was first described in Germany under the name of Schweine- 

 seuche, and it is there generally ascribed to a minute bacillus 



*See Board of Agriculture Journal. Vol. III. No. I. June, 1896. 



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