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taken of the reintrod action of cattle-plague to test the disputed 
conveyance of the disease to animals by their partaking of water 
containing the materies morhi of the malady. Some exudation 
matter and viscid mucus were removed from the fauces of a 
diseased German cow and mixed with a pail of water, which 
was then given to a yearling heifer to drink. She refused to 
swallow more than a draught or two ; but being kept from water 
for two succeeding nights and the intervening day, she freely 
partook of the remainder. On the tldrd day following the last 
drinking of the water she presented appearances which to the 
practised eye indicated that mischief was beginning, and the 
thermometer test being had recourse to, the temperature was 
found to have already risen to 105^^- the following day 
the symptoms of cattle-plague were well marked, and from that 
time the disease progressed so rapidly that death followed on 
the fourth day of illness, and ninth from the time the infected, 
water was first partaken of. 
It may be right to add that the experiment was carried out 
under circumstances which rendered it impossible that the 
animal could in any other way, save by drinking the water, 
have been exposed to the infecting material of cattle-plague. 
Its result fully confirms the opinion arrived at during the preva- 
lence of the disease in 1866, and establishes the views held by 
the best of the Continental observers. 
Addendum. 
[Since sending tlie preceding Eeport the cattle-plague has broken out in 
the East Biding of Yorkshire ; but, at the time of my adding this note, the 
disease is almost entirely exterminated. The necessity of a speedy publi- 
cation of this number of the Journal prevents my now giving the particular* 
of the cause of this outbreak of the malady. So far, however, as an investi- 
gation has gone, I may state that it in no way depended on the washing 
ashore of the carcases of the animals which ought to have been sunk off the 
mouth of the Humber. — J. B. S.] 
XIX. — Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Cardiff. By 
Henry Corbet. 
A LOOK at the map or a glance through the records of the 
Society will tell how it is just twenty Shows since the annual 
exhibition approached on the confines of South Wales. And 
then, so far as drawing forth the resources or illustrating the 
strength of the country could be concerned, the result in 1853 
was very similar to that in 1872. At Gloucester the Society 
had certainly not penetrated so far as when it travelled on to 
Cardiff; but a quarter of a century or so back, the Welsh farmers 
