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character of the disorder. The sub- 
ject will form part of the next an- 
nual report from the Royal Veteri- 
nary College. 
Liver Fluke in Sheep, &c. — 
Liver rot, or fluke disease, has 
existed in some districts since the 
heavy rainfall, but the time has 
passed for any extensive outbreak 
of the disease to occur. It may, 
however, be well to advise flock- 
, (.masters to take the precaution to 
supply sheep, especially breeding 
ewes, with artificial food mixed with 
salt, a sprinkling of which over each 
ration will be grateful to the ani- 
mals, and may to some extent arrest 
the invasion of the parasites. In- 
vestigations in reference to the 
origin of the lung worm, and also 
as to the contagious nature of foot- 
rot in sheep, have been continued 
during the year, and will be dealt 
with in the annual report of the 
College. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia. 
!Mr. Dest hoped that Professor 
Brown would have been there that 
morning, because he had asked him 
yesterday whether he would favour 
them with information as to the re- 
salt of the year's work with regard to 
pleuro-pneumonia. The report of the 
Veterinary Dspartment for 1890 did 
not come out until September, and 
then it contained the proceedings for 
only four months of last year, ^<'o 
doubt he could obtain an idea of the 
figures by hunting up the monthly 
reports which had been presented to 
the Veterinary Committee ; but he 
had hoped that they might have had 
the particulars that day. It was only 
fair to the public and to men, who, 
like himself, did not exactly agree 
with the policy of the Board, that 
the figures relating to the slaughter 
of animals should be made known. 
Abortion in Cattle. 
He (Mr. Dent) was sorry to find 
that the veterinary professors and 
the veterinary surgeons were not in- 
clined to go into this question of 
abortion in cattle. They said that 
everything was known about it. He 
could not believe that everj'thing was 
known either of this disease or of any 
other. A friend of hia had had 
something like sixteen cases of abor- 
tion in a small herd. He thought the 
veterinary professors ought to show a 
little more interest in a subject which 
was of so much importance to the 
agricultural community. He was not 
at all satisfied with the suggestions 
they made on the subject. 
Colonel Cuetis-Hatwaru said he 
quite agreed with ilr. Dent as to the 
subject of abortion in cattle. He 
thought they knew very little about 
it. In the part of the country in 
which he lived (Gloucestershire), some 
interesting inquiries had been made 
by a gentleman, who had asked for 
all cases of abortion in cattle to be 
reported to him. He had found that 
at one farm at which abortion oc- 
curred, the whole of the herd was 
disposed of, and a fresh lot of animals 
were brought upon the farm, not- 
withstanding which abortion again 
occurred upon that farm. Previously, 
there had never been abortion upon 
the farm until it was unlet for about 
a year, when cattle were allowed in 
on tack. During that time animals 
aborted. That seemed to lead to the 
idea that abortion got upon the 
herbage. He did not believe that 
it was ergot, yet it appeared to get 
upon the herbage in some way or 
other. It was generally considered a 
certain cure to get rid of the whole 
herd. But here was a case in which 
the whole herd was disposed of and 
yet abortion again appeared in the 
fresh herd. 
Mr. A. J. Smith asked whether 
the same bull was used for both 
herds. 
Colonel Curtis-Hatward : No, 
the herd was entirely changed. 
Stock Prizes. 
5Ir. Saxday (Chairman) said that 
as the Council of the Shire-horse 
Society had decided that Mr. Peter 
Blundell's stallion " Prince Harold," 
to which the third prize was awarded 
in Class 37 at the Doncaster Meeting, 
was ineligible for their stud-book, the 
animal was disqualified under Regu- 
lation 4.^, and they therefore recom- 
mended tliat the third prize in Class 
S7 be awarded to the reserve number, 
Messrs. Lowndes and Son's " Castem 
Harold." The third prize sow, No. 
2,060, in Class 165, Mr. Arthur K, 
