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Monthly Council , July 26 , 1893 . 
for the information of tenant-farmers 
■wishing their manures, feeding-stuffs, 
&c., to be analysed, in accordance 
with a scheme recently adopted by 
the County Council. The Committee 
recommended that permission be 
given. Various other matters con- 
nected with the Society’s Chemical 
Department had been discussed. 
The Committee also presented their 
usual quarterly report, containing 
particulars of analyses of materials 
sold as “ pure dissolved English 
bones,” “ fish-bone manure,” “ fish 
manure,” and “ rice meal.” This re- 
port was adopted on the motion of 
Viscount Emlyn, and ordered to be 
published in the Journal (see page 
621). 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead (Chairman) re- 
ported the receipt of 149 answers to 
the circular letter of inquiry which 
by direction of the Council at their 
last meeting had been sent to each 
member of the Council and to others 
interested, on the subject of finger- 
and-toe in turnips. The inquiry into 
this disease was being duly proceeded 
with, and the Committee proposed 
that Dr. Voelcker and Mr. Carruthers 
should be authorised to take the 
necessary steps for the completion of 
the investigation during the present 
season upon the lines already laid 
down. Dr. Voelcker would pay a 
personal visit of inspection to the 
farms in those cases where it was 
considered desirable to do so. 
The Committee had referred to the 
Implement Committee their recom- 
mendation that prizes be offered in 
connection with the Cambridge 
Meeting for spraying machines and 
insecticide distributors. A letter had 
been read from Her Majesty’s Cus- 
toms Office forwarding a copy of 
the regulations at present in force 
for the denaturing and disposal of 
abandoned tobacco and snuff, with 
the view of its being used for the 
manufacture of insecticides. The 
Committee recommended that the 
Society’s thanks be given for the 
information so supplied. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thorold (Chairman) 
presented the following report from 
Professor Brown : — 
Anthrax.— According to the published 
returns, this disease is increasing in Great 
Britain. During the four weeks ended July 
15, 45 outbreaks were reported, as com- 
pared with 31 in the preceding four weeks. 
Swine Fever. — This disease maintains 
about the same rate of prevalence as it did 
last year. Since the beginning of the year 
there have been 1,577 outbreaks reported 
and 7,725 pigs attacked, as compared with 
1,419 outbreaks and 8,015 swine attacked in 
the corresponding period of last year. 
Rabies.— There have been 43 cases of this 
disease in Great Britain this year, as com- 
pared with 18 in the corresponding period of 
1892. 
Sir Jacob Wilson had laid before 
the Committee a letter from Mr. 
Clement Stephenson in reference to 
cases of anthrax in Northumberland. 
In one of these a farmer, under the 
impression that an animal had been 
killed by lightning, skinned and cut 
up the carcass, afterwards ringing a 
sow with a litter of pigs. The result 
was that the pigs had died through 
inoculation with the anthrax virus, 
and the farmer himself had become 
very seriously ill with the same 
disease. The Committee desired to 
emphasise the great necessity for 
caution in dealing with the carcasses 
of animals that might have died 
from anthrax, and would especially 
point out that on no account should 
such carcasses be cut prior to their 
burial or destruction. Copies of the 
recent circular of the Board of 
Agriculture, warning against the 
danger of handling carcasses of 
animals affected with anthrax, had 
been laid upon the table. Professor 
Brown had presented a certificate 
certifying that during the week of 
the Chester Meeting no outbreak of 
infectious or contagious disease had 
occurred in the Showyard. The 
Secretary had reported that he had 
been in communication with the Earl 
of Cawdor in reference to a serious 
outbreak on his lordship’s estate of a 
disease which was supposed to be 
quarter-ill. It was arranged that 
Professor McFadyean should immedi- 
ately visit the farm where the outbreak 
occurred, in order to investigate the 
nature of the disease, and to advise 
as to the measures to be adopted 
against its recurrence. 
Stock Prizes. 
Sir Jacob Wilson (in the absence 
of Mr. Sanday, Chairman) reported 
that Sir Nigel Kingscote had attended 
