380 Professor Simondss Heport to the Committee of 
season is too far advanced In this locality, as I find from expe- 
rience in the 16 acres that the first or second week in May is the 
best time in this district ; and, as the yellow turnips come in at 
a time when not required, I am in favour of the savoy cabbages, 
for I have never yet failed in raising a full crop, and the savoy 
cabbages come just when the others are done. 
No. 5. Sprimj Tares, loith Rye and Beans. — (Same as No. 2.) 
I have tried them with oats, but could not make the crop stand. 
The spring tares in Nos. 2 and 5, and the winter tares in 
No. 4, ought not to be cut until they are at their full growth, if 
it can be avoided, as there is no second cutting like that yielded 
by Italian rye-grass, each cutting of which ought not to be allowed 
to grow too long, as by so doing it interferes with the next. There 
is sufficient time, after each crop is cleared, to prepare and sow or 
plant the next, and there will not be any failure if the dates 
given are attended to. 
The result may be thus briefly summed up : the land has 
grown heavier crops each succeeding year; and, by careful 
management, a supply of green food has been kept up for each 
succeeding day in the year. 
XV. — Extract from Professor SiMONDS's Report to the Committee 
of Governors of the Rorjal Veterinary Colleye, included in the 
Annual Report of that Body, for 1868, to the Council of 
the Royal Agricultural Society. 
With reference to the specimens of disease which have been 
received from members of the Royal Agricultural Society, and 
also from provincial veterinary surgeons, it may be observed that 
a larger number than usual have come to hand during the year; 
but that communications from the former asking for a personal 
investigation of disease on their respective farms have been fewer 
than usual. 
Many of the specimens possessed more than ordinary inte- 
rest, particularly some of scrofulous deposits in the several 
organs of the body. They showed unmistakeably that this 
hereditary and malignant disease had been unusually rife among 
our established breeds of cattle, more especially the Shorthorns 
and Devons. A few years since scrofula prevailed to a con- 
siderable extent among the cattle brought together at the different 
agricultural exhibitions ; but a rejection of many of the animals 
from competition on the recommendation of the inspecting 
veterinary surgeon led to a great diminution of the number of 
these cases, from, as was hoped, the owners of the animals ab- 
