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desirable that veterinary surgeons should adopt with scrupulous 
accuracy M. Nocard's antiseptic treatment, and report the re- 
sults. It will be the important duty of the Royal Agricultural 
Society to publish the results of these observations, and to advise 
that farmers in all parts, where herds suffer from epizootic 
abortion, shall at once place their animals under veterinary 
treatment, which there is now good reason to believe will be 
attended with success, only, however, as M. Nocard suggests, 
as the reward of perseverance. 
Summary. 
Cows which are bred and fed under highly artificial condi- 
tions are more predisposed to suflfer from abortion than those 
which live under natural surroundings. Epizootic abortion is 
contagious, and should be dealt with by isolation of the diseased 
animals, and the regular use of disinfectants to the cows and 
also to the sheds or stables in which they are kept. Ou farms 
where abortion has been a frequent or constant occurrence for 
some time, the disinfection recommended by M. Nocard should 
be carefully and regularly adopted and continued for at least 
two years. When a new outbreak occurs, i.e., in sheds which 
have been free from the disease for some time, and especially 
when a newly purchased cow is attacked, the animal should be 
at once removed, and the system of disinfection recommended 
should be at once commenced, and continued until all the cows 
have calved, A bull which has served a cow soon after abortion 
is likely to communicate the disease for some time to other 
cows. Finally, it is necessary to remind the stockowner that 
the plague of abortion is not likely to be completely extirijated 
unless the preventive measures are steadily and accurately 
applied as directed. 
G. T. Brown. 
THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURAL 
COMPETITION. 
It has required all the courage derived from firm convictions, 
based upon a great body of evidence, to enable any writer to 
maintain, throughout the recent period of low prices and gene- 
rally increasing agricultural imports, that the intensity of 
agricultural competition was likely to abate in the near future. 
Circumstances have combined to encourage the unreasonable 
attitude of the great majority of critics upon this subject, so 
