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Management of Devon Cattle. 
the exclusive support of the tenant-farmers of important beef-pro- 
ducing districts ; and this often after experimental competition 
with larger breeds. “ Whether they are required to graze the 
rich pastures of the Yale of Taunton Dene and those around 
Bridgwater, or the bleak hills of North Molton,” a valued cor- 
respondent observes, “ they readily adapt themselves to the 
varied conditions ” ; and they do so, we must here remember, in 
subjection to the power of control which man as a watchful 
manager possesses. 
We have seen that, even in the steer-breeding or beef- 
producing herds, the dairy properties of the Devon are by no 
means lost while the breeder is busying himself with the increase 
of flesh ; and we have further seen that, where the dairy is the 
main business, the Devon, with a little gentle persuasion in the 
way of altered treatment, comes forth an ample milker and a 
butter-cow of almost the first degree of excellence, yielding 
only to a breed which cannot for one moment compete with it 
for grazing. 
Wm. Housman. 
ANBURY, CLUB-ROOT, OR FINGER 
AND TOE. 
This disease, caused by Vlasmodioyfhora Brassicce, Woronin, 
shows itself by the tops of the attacked turnips becoming yellow 
and soft, and drooping in the heat of the sun. When the bulb 
is taken out of the ground the rootlets which issue from it, and 
through which the plant obtains its nourishment from the soil, 
are found to be covered with irregular warty excrescences. In 
the progress of the disease the bulb itself becomes rotten, and 
in the advanced stages a most offensive putrid odour is given off. 
The warty growths on the rootlets and the offensive odour 
easily distinguish this disease from other injuries to the turnip, 
which have been included by some writers under one or other 
of the popular names given in the title of this paper. 
Much attention has been given to this disease by practical 
agriculturists and scientific investigators. The earliest opinion 
in regard to anbury was that it was caused by insects. John 
Curtis, who has laid the farmer under such great obligations by 
his investigations into the insects of the farm, originally pub- 
lished in this Journal, has carefully examined this view in 
Yol. IV., 1843, pages 121-124, and concludes that, ^though 
