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.'!. To subject animals previously tested by injection to the 
inhalation of fresh dried material into the lungs. 
4. To test the influence of cohabitation, by introducing some 
of the animals already experimented on by the other methods of 
infec tion referred to, into stables occupied by diseased animals ; 
and 
5. To have some of the others slaughtered, for the purpose of 
ascertaining whether or not, in the absence of any appreciable 
signs of infection, the lungs or other internal organs exhibit 
any latent changes, corresponding to undeveloped stages of the 
disease. 
X. — Report on the Health of Animals of the Farm, 187G. By 
W. DUGUID, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Inspector of the 
Society. 
DURING the past year no very extensive or serious outbreaks 
of disease among animals of the farm have been reported, not- 
withstanding the great, and often rather sudden, changes of 
weather to which they have been exposed. The long continued 
low temperature, and frequently recurring frosts in March and 
April, proved especially injurious to ewes and lambs, and many 
deaths were reported from some of the northern and more 
exposed districts. 
Some reports reached the Brown Institution of sheep dying 
from the effects of the excessive heat in July and August ; 
but, on inquiry, the symptoms and post-mortem appearances 
described seemed to indicate that blood-poisoning, and not the 
direct effects of heat, had been the cause of death. 
Contagious Diseases. 
Stock-owners in this country suffered less during the year 
1876 from diseases of this class than for several years past. 
The comparatively few outbreaks reported have been mostly 
limited in extent, and of a mild character. 
Foot-and-Mouth Disease, which had prevailed very extensively- 
over the whole of Great Britain in 1874-5, began to decline 
in the latter year, both as regards the number of animals 
affected and the character of the disease ; the mildness of the 
attacks being indicated by the small proportion of instances in 
which the disease either recurred a second time or terminated 
fatally. Occurring, as it did, at the end of the year, this 
abatement of the disease was by many attributed to the usual 
