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favour the appearance of these affections, together with the 
structural changes which both prominently exhibit, I am dis- 
posed to give this view at least a favourable consideration. 
In the larger number of animals of all tribes which are 
liable to suffer from rickets, 1 am aware that when occurring in 
early life, the limbs, and not the central bony column, is the 
situation where the abnormality in bone structure is chiefly 
encountered. Now, although in both these diseases we have 
been considering, the one part of the skeleton suffers consider- 
ably in excess, in neither can it be said that the other is 
entirely free from change. In those where the alterations are 
chiefly connected with the spinal portion, the bone-elements of 
the limbs in many participate, although to a less extent, and 
vice versa. 
As the result of my experience of both these states, I have 
found that where the prominent symptoms are those of impaired 
innervation, the influences operating in the induction of the 
diseased state have been brought to bear on the ewes during 
gestation ; while, where the prevailing phenomena are those of 
fragility of the bones of the limbs, the disturbing influences have 
been in operation on the lambs themselves, the dams having 
been kept away from the agencies believed to develop the 
paralytic symptoms. 
It seems that, having passed the periods of infancy and early 
maturity, sheep are comparatively little liable to show this dis- 
turbance of bone nutrition ; at least, I have rarely encountered 
it in any of its forms in animals which have reached adult life. 
XXII. — - Meport on Agricultural Education : — a Summary. 
Part II.* By HERBERT J. LiTTLE, Professor of Agriculture 
and Rural Economy, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 
In our previous survey of the subject of Agricultural Education 
in Continental countries, we found one constant and inva- 
riable feature to prevail. In all these European States the 
schools are either established or more or less assisted by 
Government. In this country we have always prided our- 
selves upon relying on private enterprise. It may be doubted, 
however, whether some State assistance other than the meagre 
grants already afforded, would not have been a real help to the 
agriculture of this country in the past. Except by payment 
for results obtained in certain schools, the little that has been 
done by the State may be summed up in two facts : — 
* Continued from p. 164. 
