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Mont hhi Council, December C, 1893 
proved to be somewhat slight, only 
a few barley plants having been 
attacked by the larvas ; but last year 
the damage had been considerable, at 
least a quarter of the plants of a 
large field of barley having been 
broken, the ears lying on the ground 
as if the field had been trampled 
down by cattle. The damage had 
been noticed on this farm from the 
insect for the last three years. As 
to Sweden, the Board of Agriculture 
at Stockholm reported that the 
Hessian fly had never appeared in 
that country. 
The annual report of the Consult- 
ing Botanist and the annual report 
of the Zoologist had been submitted, 
and the Committee recommended 
that both reports be published in the 
next number of the Journal (see 
pages 813 and 815). The Committee 
had met eight times, and made eight 
reports during the year. 
Veterinary. 
Mr. Ashworth reported that a 
letter had been received from the 
Farriers’ Company, consenting to 
confer the freedom of their guild 
and to provide the first prizes in each 
of the two classes of the Horse-shoe- 
ing Competition as before. A letter 
had been read from Mr. K. S. 
Reynolds, M.R.C.V.S., of Liverpool, 
accepting the terms of his appoint- 
ment as the Society’s Provincial 
Veterinary Surgeon for South-West- 
ern Lancashire. Of the 600Z. granted 
to the Committee for the year 1893, 
the sum of 502Z. 14s. had been 
expended, viz., 500Z. to the Royal 
Veterinary College, and 21. 14s. for 
medals to proficients in cattle patho- 
logy. The Committee moved for the 
renewal of their grant of 600Z. for the 
year 1894, and that of this sum 600/. 
be allocated to the Royal Veterinary 
College in aid of the further develop- 
ment of comparative pathology and 
bacteriology. The Committee had 
met eight times, and made eight 
reports. Professor Brown had pre- 
sented to the Committee the follow- 
ing report : — 
PLEtmo-rxEUMO via.— S ince the last meet- 
ing of the Veterinary Committee another 
outbreak of this disease was discovered in a 
London cowshed. On November 0 a cow 
from this cowshed was sent to the Metro- 
politan Market, and when slaughtered the 
same day, in one of the adjacent slaughter. 
houses, was found affected with pleuro- 
pneumonia. The whole of the cattle on the 
premises from which she was sent were 
slaughtered by order of the Board of Agri- 
culture, and three more were found affected 
with the disease. An Order has been passed 
by the Board of Agriculture dealing with 
the movement of cattle out of the London 
cowsheds, and another dealing with the move- 
ment of cattle out of certain parishes in the 
County of Middlesex. 
Swine Fever. — Since the first of last 
month the Board of Agriculture, under the 
Swine Fever Act, has been dealing with this 
disease instead of the local authorities, so far 
as slaughter and compensation are concerned. 
It is too early to form any estimate of the 
progress being made towards eradicating the 
disease : but, judging from the returns pub- 
lished in the London Gazette, the Board is 
carrying out the slaughter of diseased and 
in-contact pigs in a very energetic manner. 
The total number slaughtered in the three 
weeks ended November 25 was 2,093, of 
which 2,070 were diseased or in-contact, and 
twenty-three were slaughtered as suspected, 
but on post-mortem were found free from 
the disease. 
Anthrax. — The returns of this disease 
still continue abnormally liigh. In the 
week ended November 25 there were eighteen 
fresh outbreaks reported and thirty-one 
animals attacked. The average for the forty- 
seven weeks of the present year has been 
about ten outbreaks and twenty-four ani- 
mals attacked. This year there have been 
499 outbreaks and 1,162 animals attacked, as 
compared with 249 outbreaks and 550 ani- 
mals attacked in the corresponding period of 
last year. 
Rabies. — This disease has recently been 
more prevalent than usual. In the four 
weeks ended November 25 there were 
fourteen cases reported. In the correspond- 
ing period of last year there were only eight 
reported. 
Stock Prizes. 
Mr. Sanday (Chairman) presented 
for approval the prize-sheet for stock, 
poultry, and produce at the Cam- 
bridge Meeting, and said that the 
Committee recommended the accept- 
ance, with thanks, of the following 
further offers of champion prizes for 
the Cambridge Meeting 1 : — 
Two gold medals for the best Hackney 
stallion and the best Hackney mare or filly, 
from the Hackney Horse Society. 
Two gold medals for the best Shire stallion 
and the best Shire mare or filly, from the 
Shire Horse Society. 
Two prizes of 201. each for the best 
Clydesdale stallion and the best Clydesdale 
mare or filly, from the Clydesdale Horse 
Society. 
Two prizes of 20 1. each for the best male 
and the best female animal in the Short- 
horn classes, from the Shorthorn Society. 
Two prizes of Ten Guineas each for 
the best Kerry and the best Dexter Kerry 
animal, from the Kerry and Dexter Kerry 
Cattle Society. 
1 For complete list of Champion Frizes, 
see page exeix. - 
