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sometimes the legs, particularly on sandy or gritty soils, during wet 
and cold weather. This malady did not prove to be contagious, as 
healthy sheep penned with the diseased ones did not suffer. 
(6) Contagious mammitis (garget) in ewes : a disease which has 
proved very fatal in wet weather in several districts. 
(c) Cases of parasitic lung disease in lambs. 
{d) Cases of pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, for experimental treat- 
ment by sulphurous acid gas, which was not proved to possess the 
curative properties ascribed to it. 
(e) Cases of foot-rot in sheep were admitted at different times 
during the year, and experiments were tried to test the alleged con- 
tagious chai-acter of the disease, but without result. Further experi- 
ments will be made as opportunities occur. 
(/) Several lambs were admitted suffering from diarrhoea, result- 
ing from the invasion of tape-worms ; but these parasites were not 
so common among lambs as they were during the previous year. 
It is not possible in the space which is available for this Report 
to refer to the investigations which have been carried on for more 
than a year in reference to the life-history of the lung-worm. But 
a separate Report is being prepared, and will^shortly be ready for 
publication. 
G. T. Brown, Principal of the College. 
January, 1891. 
FURTHER REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COM- 
MITTEE ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN 
AGRICULTURE. 
[For previous Keport, see Vol. I., Third Series (1890), page 851.] 
Since the meeting of the Council in November last, when the subject 
of agricultural education was discussed, the question has been 
prominently brought forward at the meetings of County Councils, 
and of agricultural clubs and societies in most parts of England. 
Several letters asking for advice or suggestions on the subject of 
education have been received by the Secretary of the Society and by 
individual Members of the Committee. Almost every County 
Council in England proposes to devote a portion of its funds to the 
teaching of agriculture. It is, therefore, very desirable that these 
funds should be applied systematically, and not wasted over temporary 
or ephemeral projects. 
2. The first difficulty in administering the funds, which are at 
present at the disposal of the County Councils, arises from the 
restriction imposed, " that these funds must be applied in institu- 
tions existing in the administrative county in which the funds are 
raised or have been granted." The Government have, however, 
promised to introduce a Bill to remedy this defect ; and our sugges- 
