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Hessian fly and the warble maggot has undoubtedly done 
much to direct public attention to the necessity of protective 
measures against the ravages of insect pests generally. 
The Journal has in part guided and in part reflected the 
activity in subjects relating to the breeding and feeding of stock, 
which has been one of the most notable features of the past two 
decades. The reports published year by year on the Live Stock 
exhibited at the Country Meetings, while having perhaps their 
chief primary interest for breeders and exhibitors, have had a 
value also for the general reader. Occasionally there hare been 
articles dealing with particular varieties of stock, such, for in- 
stance, as the paper by Mr. H. H. Dixon on the rise and progress 
of Shorthorns (Vol. I.) ; that by the late Mr. James Howard on 
Pigs (Vol. XVII) ; and that by Mr. Thornton on Jersey Cattle 
(Vol. XVII.). The article by Earl Cathcart (Vol. XIX.) on 
half-bred horses for field and road did much to direct, if not 
indeed to originate, the movement for the breeding of better 
horses and more of them, which has now been taken under the 
fostering care of a Royal Commission and of two or three special 
associations. In Vol. XIV. Mr. Henry Evershed wrote an 
article on the early fattening of cattle, which first gave pub- 
licity to the attempts of stock-breeders to attain that system of 
early maturity which has since become their guiding principle. 
The melancholy subject of cattle disease has occupied much 
of the Society's attention, and has been the theme of many 
articles in the Journal. The second and third volumes appeared 
when the subject of rinderpest was engrossing all thoughts, and 
an elaborate scheme of national cattle insurance was propounded 
by Dr. I'arr in Vol. II. Contributions by Professors J. B. 
Simonds and G. T. Brown on various veterinary subjects, and 
an admirable article by Dr. George Fleming on Pasteur and 
his work (Vol. XXII.), have kept the members well-posted in all 
the latest researches in the science. The paper written by 
Professor Brown for Vol. XVIII., on " Dentition as indicative 
of the Age of Farm Animals," materially assisted in placing upon 
a scientific basis the rules for ascertaining the ages of stock. 
In Vols. XVII., XVIII., and XIX., Professor A. P. Thomas 
wrote that marvellous fairy-tale of science which we now know 
as the Life History of the Liver Fluke. 
Several articles, notably those by Professor Sheldon (Vol. 
XIII.), by Major Craigie (Vols. XXIII. and XXV.), and by Mr. 
John Clay, jun. (Vol. XXV.), have dealt with the increasingly 
important subject of the importation of meat, and the present 
number of the Journal contains an article by Mr. Albert Pell 
with reference to the weighing of live-stock. The question of 
