Reports of Committees. 
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Society, and had been analysed, with 
the following results : 1 — 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 
Moisture 343 -94 2'95 
•Organic matter . . 20-27 2'23 6 35 
Phosphate of lime . 5-18 -115 153 
Oxide of iron, alkalis, | jo-gg 3.30 3.32 
magnesia, Sic. f 
Sand 5904 9253 85-85 
100-00 lOO'OO 10000 
•Containing nitrogen 147 29 -03 
Equal to ammonia l - 78 "35 '76 
At the Woburn Sub-Committee, 
letters had been read from the Board 
of Agriculture with reference to the 
experiments with Lathyrus sylre&tris 
carried out last rear at Woburn, and 
the Secretary had been instructed 
to inform the Board that it was pro- 
posed to continue these experiments. 
As to the request of the Board that the 
Society should nominate two or three 
gentlemen likely to conduct experi- 
ments on different soils, the Com- 
mittee thought it desirable that no 
steps should be taken with regard to 
this until the experiments should be 
further developed. 
The Sub-Committee recommended 
that for the present year the usual 
excursion to Woburn be discontinued, 
but that special arrangements be 
made for any gentlemen wishing to 
visit the experiments. The experi- 
ments on sheep-feeding would shortly 
be concluded, and arrangements 
made for the sale and slaughter of 
the sheep. 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chairman) stated 
that Miss Ormerod had reported that 
experiments would be made in the 
coming season in various fruit-pro- 
ducing districts, with remedies 
against the attack of the winter moth 
caterpillars. A letter having been 
received from Mr. Robert Garton ask- 
ing that the Society would undertake 
the supervision of his experiments 
for the improvement of cereals, the 
Committee recommended that the 
application be not complied with. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thoeold (Chairman) 
stated that Professor Brown had pre- 
sentedthequarterlyreport of the Royal 
Veterinary College (see page 413), 
which was ordered to be published. 
1 See also page 418. 
The Worshipful Company of Farriers 
had accepted (subject to one or two 
verbal changes) the provisions of the 
scheme for the examination and 
registration of farriers, as amended 
by the joint conference, and the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
had accepted the scheme except as 
regarded the phrase " Farriers as 
Shoeing-smiths," which they proposed 
should read "Farriers or Shoeing- 
smiths." This alteration having been 
accepted by the Worshipful Company, 
the Committee recommended that it 
also receive the sanction of the Society. 
Professor Brown had presented his 
monthly report as follows : — 
Pleubo-pneumonia. — In Great 
Britain, in the four weeks ending 
March 22, there were twenty-four 
fresh outbreaks of this disease, 
sixteen in England, in the counties 
of Cumberland, Hants, Kent, Lan- 
caster, London, and Stafford ; the 
eight outbreaks in Scot land occurred 
in Edinburgh and Perth. The number 
of cattle attacked was 150, viz. 100 
in England and fifty in Scotland ; 
while the number of healthy cattle 
slaughtered in contact was 2G0 in 
England and 237 in Scotland. In 
Ireland there were four fresh out- 
breaks of pleuro-pneumonia in the 
four weeks, all of them in the 
North and South Dublin Unions ; 
thirty-eight cattle were attacked, 
and 146 healthy ones in contact 
were slaughtered. 
Anthrax. — There were five out- 
breaks of this disease reported in 
England — in Lincoln (Eesteven), 
Sussex (west), York (East and West 
Riding). In Scotland, three out- 
breaks of anthrax occurred in 
Banff, Dumbarton, and Lanark. 
Altogether eighteen animals were 
attacked, eleven of which died. In 
Ireland there were two outbreaks 
of anthrax, and six animals at- 
tacked, three of which died, and 
three recovered. 
Swine Fever. — In Great Britain 
there were 225 fresh outbreaks 
of swine fever, and 1.304 pigs at- 
tacked ; 673 diseased swine were 
killed, 516 died, 131 recovered, and 
208' remained alive at the end of 
the week. In Ireland sixteen out- 
breaks occurred, and forty-three 
pigs were attacked. 
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