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prevalent as it was upon the damp 
soils of the country. He thought that 
veterinary science was not up to 
the times in regard to this disease — 
in fact, that the profession had shirked 
it. He was sorry to find that this 
disease was not touched upon by Pro- 
fessor Brown in his pamphlet on the 
" Animals of the Farm." 
Earl Cathcart said it might be 
possible to stamp out the disease for 
a time ; but if they went to the market 
and bought a few fresh sheep, the 
disease broke out again before the 
sheep had been there a month. 
The subject then dropped, but it 
was understood that it would receive 
the attention of the Veterinary Com- 
mittee. 
Chemical. 
Viscount Emlyn (Chairman) sub- 
mitted a letter from Mr. Hermann 
Voss, the President of the Chemical 
Manure Manufacturers' Association, 
staring that at a general meeting of 
the Association held at Plymouth 
during the Show a resolution had been 
passed: — "That this meeting is of 
opinion it is desirable in the interests 
of the trade that for the future the 
percentage of soluble phosphates 
guaranteed shall be branded on each 
bag sold for the home trade in a con- 
spicuous place." The Association, 
having heard of low grades of super- 
phosphate being sold without suffi- 
cient intimation as to quality, con- 
sidered it in the interests of consumers 
and manufacturers alike to avoid 
any misunderstanding by agreeing 
to distinctly brand the guaranteed 
minimum of soluble phosphates on 
the bags, and the President of the 
Association wrote that he thought 
that no doubt this resolution would be 
received with satisfaction by the 
Society, and that they would advise 
theirmembers to see that for the future 
all bags containing superphosphate 
purchased by them were branded in t he 
manner agreed upon. The Committee 
recommended that Mr. Voss be in- 
formed in reply that the Society recog- 
nises with satisfaction all efforts made 
by the trade to prevent the improper 
sale of inferior low quality manures. 
The Committee then presented 
their Quarterly Report, which, on the 
motion of Viscount Emlyn, was 
ordered to be published with the pro- 
ceedings of Council, and in the next 
number of the Journal (see page 636). 
Seels and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chairman) said 
that Miss Ormerod, who was unfortu- 
nately absent through illness, had for- 
warded a report on the Hessian Fly, 
which the Committee recommended 
should be published in the proceedings 
of the Council (see below). Mr. 
Carruthers had reported that he had 
communicated with the Council in 
reference to the proposed pasture 
experiments, and that twenty-one 
members of the Council had reported 
the existence in their neighbourhoods 
of old pastures of high feeding 
qualities, representing fifty pastures. 
The Committee recommended that 
these should be visited by the Con- 
sulting Botanist in pursuance of his 
inquiry. 
The Committee suggested the fol- 
lowing schedule of prizes for Jams 
and Cider in connection with the 
Doncaster Meeting of 1891 : — 
JAMS AND PRESERVED FRUITS. 
[To be prepared exclusively from 
fruits grown in the United Kingdom 
in the vear 1890.] 
£ £ £ 
1. Collection of whole fruit Jams .532 
2. Collection of bottled fruits ..532 
3. Collection of preserved fruits for 
dessert purposes 5 3 2 
4. Collection of dried or evaporated 
fruits for cooking purposes ..532 
CIDER AND PERRY. 
[The exhibitors to certify that the 
Cider or Perry was prepared by them- 
selves from fruit grown by themselves 
in 1890.1 
£ £ £ 
1. Cask of not less than 18 and not 
more than 30 gallons of Cider 
made in the autumn of 1890 .5 3 2 
2. One dozen bottles of Cider made 
in the autumn of 1890 ... 5 3 2 
3. One dozen bottles of Cider made 
in any year before 1890 ... 5 3 2 
4. One dozen bottles of Perry ..532 
Consulting Entomologist's Jfej)ort. 
Up to Monday, the 21st inst., I 
had no definite report of presence 
of Hessian fly having been again 
observed this summer, but on that 
day I received information from 
Professor Harker, of the Royal Agri- 
cultural College, Cirencester, that 
