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sale, as its existence is sufficiently well 
known to interested parties. ~ 1 
It must be added, however, that the regu- 
lations of the Customs Warehousing Code 
would not, the Board learn, admit of farmers 
and fruit-growers converting refuse snuff 
and tobacco into sheep- wash and insecticides 
except in approved premises, under the 
supervision of Revenue officers, and that in 
the interests of the Revenue it is considered 
that these regulations could not be safely 
departed from. 
In view of these facts the Board are 
disposed to think that the existing facilities 
for obtaining cheap refuse snuff and tobacco 
for the manufacture of washes and dressings 
could not well be extended ; but they would 
therefore be glad of any observations which 
the Council of your Society desire to offer 
on the question, and especially as to whether 
any useful purpose would still be served by 
the further experimental cultivation of 
tobacco in this country, — I am, Sir, your 
obedient servant. 
(Signed) T. H. Elliott, 
Secretary. 
Ernest Clarke, Esq. 
Secretary, Royal Agricultural Society. 
Tlie Committee recommended that 
the Secretary, in thanking the Hoard 
for their communication, be direct ed to 
point out the desirability of facilities 
being afforded by the Government 
officials for the sale to agriculturists, 
for the purposes of sheep-washes and 
insecticides, of refuse tobacco and 
snuff, which had previously been 
rendered by the Government officials 
unfit for use, instead of its sale being 
limited, as at present, to certain 
privileged traders. 
Finger- and-Toe in Turnips. 
Earl Cathcart said that on 
December 7th last year he mentioned 
the subject of finger-and-toe in 
turnips and roots, and the matter 
was referred to the Seeds and Plant 
Diseases Committee. Mr. Whitehead, 
in a few words upon that occasion, 
said that the matter should be looked 
into. Mr. Carruthers was to be con- 
sulted, and the Seeds and Plants 
Committee would take the matter 
into consideration. He now wished 
to remind the Seeds and Plants 
Committee of the matter, and to ask 
what had been done. He was quite 
certain that the exhaustion of the 
soil had a great deal to do with the 
disease, and in any inquiry which 
might be undertaken analyses of the 
soil would be lequired. 
Mr. Whitehead, in reply, said 
the matter was referred to the Seeds 
and Plant Diseases Committee at the 
monthly Council on December 7, 1892, 
and it was considered by that Com- 
mittee at their next meeting in 
February, 1893, when they reported 
to the Council as follows : — 
In reference to Earl Cathcart’s remarks at 
the last meeting of the Council, the Commit- 
tee recommend that an investigation be made 
during the coming season into the attacks 
of finger-and-toe in turnips, and that a paper 
on this subject be prepared for the Journal 
under the direction of tlio Consulting 
Botanist. 
He would take care that the Con- 
sulting Botanist was again communi- 
cated with upon the subject. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John TnoROLD (Chairman), 
presented the recommendation of the 
Committee that Mr. F. W. Garnett, 
M.R.C.V.S., of Windermere, be ap- 
pointed the Society’s Provincial 
Veterinary Surgeon for Westmore- 
land. It had been arranged that 
Professor McFadyean would shortly 
proceed to Northumberland in order 
to investigate the outbreak of loup- 
ing-ill amongst sheep in that county. 
The following report had been pre- 
sented from Professor Brown 
Pleuho-pxeumoxia. — During the first 
three months of this year no fresh outbreak 
of pleuro-pneumonia was reported in Great 
Britain, nor was any case of the disease 
discovered, and no cattle were slaughtered 
in consequence of having been exposed to 
infection. There were nineteen suspected 
cattle slaughtered and found on post-mortem 
examination free from the disease. In the 
corresponding period of 1892, sixty-one dis- 
eased, 652 contact, and fifty-six suspected 
cattle were slaughtered. In 1891 there were 
in the first quarter 168 diseased, 2,075 con- 
tact, and fifty-eight suspected cattle slaugh- 
tered. Since the returns for the week ended 
April 1st were made up, an outbreak has 
been reported in Forfarshire, in which one 
diseased animal and forty-six healthy iu 
contact have been slaughtered. 
Swine Fever. — -During the first quarter 
of the present year there have been 561 fresh 
outbreaks of this disease reported, and 2,735 
pigs attacked. In the corresponding periods 
of the three preceding years, the returns in 
1892 were 412 outbreaks and 2,625 attacked ; 
1891, 884 outbreaks, 5,365 attacked ; 1890, 
690 outbreaks, 3,891 attacked. 
Anthrax.— This disease has been much 
more prevalent in the present year than in 
any of the three preceding ones. The out- 
breaks this year have been 119, as compared 
with sixty-five iu the corresponding period 
of 1892, fifty-three in 1891, and forty-three 
in 1890. The animals attacked have this 
year been 284, as compared with 118 in 1892, 
106 in 1891, and sixty-nine iu 1890. 
Glanders, including Farcy.— There have 
