Iteports of CommUtees. 
Ixxi 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Whitehead reported that the 
arrangements for the Society’s po- 
tato experiments were progressing 
satisfactorily. The Stock Prizes 
Committee having approved of the 
schedule of prizes for jams, preserved 
fruits and vegetables, cider, and 
perry, proposed by this Committee, 
at their last meeting, for competition 
at the Chester Meeting of 1893, the 
conditions and regulations governing 
these prizes had been again considered 
and finally passed (see page Ixxiv.). 
Miss Ormerod had presented her usual 
quarterly report, which the Committee 
recommended for publication with the 
proceedings of Council, and in the 
next number of the Journal (see page 
365). 
Mr. Whitehead remarked that 
Miss Ormerod’s report contained 
an account of an attack of pea 
beetles, which had done some con- 
siderable damage, and of the remedies 
which should be adopted. But the 
most unsatisfactory part of the report 
was the announcement of the re- 
appearance of the diamond-back 
moth. 
The Earl of Kavexsworth asked 
if there were any information as to 
whether the localities in which this 
destructive moth had re-appeared 
this year were the same as those of 
last year. 
Mr. Whitehead replied in the 
aifirmative. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thoeold (Chairman) 
stated that a report had been received 
from Mr. Edgar, F.K.C.V.S., the So- 
ciety’s provincial veterinary surgeon 
for the county of Kent, as to cases 
dealt with by him during the last 
year. Twenty-nine entries had been 
received for the horse-shoeing com- 
petition at Warwick — viz. twenty- 
two in Class I. (Roadsters) and seven 
in Class II. (Dray Horses). It was 
arranged that the competition in 
Class I. should be held on Tuesday 
and Wednesday, June 21 and 22, and 
in Class II. on Thursday, June 23. The 
Committee recommended that Pro- 
fessor Pritchard be asked to lecture on 
horse-shoeing, as last year, on Friday, 
June 24. 
The following report had been 
received from Professor Brown : — 
Foot-and-mouth Disease. — 
This disease * still lingers in the 
Sittingbourne district of Kent, 
principally among sheep. It was 
hoped that the daughter of about 
200 sheep by tbe Board of Agri- 
culture would have stamped it out, 
but unfortunately some further out- 
breaks have occurred within the last 
few days. 
Swine Fever. — This disease is 
increasing, as is always the case 
about this season of the year ; 
during the past four weeks the 
fresh outbreaks have averaged 
about sixty per week, as compared 
with fifty per week for the previous 
month or two. 
Pleuro-pneumonia. — Since the 
last meeting of the Veterinary 
Committee, there have only been 
two fresh outbreaks of this disease 
in Great Britain. One of these 
occurred in Leith and the other in 
London. This is the smallest num- 
ber of outbreaks in any four weeks 
since the Pleuro-pneumonia Act 
of 1890 came into operation, and 
probably the smallest in any corre- 
sponding period since the disease 
was first introduced about fifty 
years ago. 
Anthrax. — There have been 
twenty fresh outbreaks of this 
disease reported in Great Britain 
in four weeks. They occurred in 
the counties of Dorset, Gloucester, 
Herts, Lancaster, Norfolk, North- 
ampton, Northumberland, Somer- 
,set, AVestmoreland, Wilts, Worces- 
ter, and York (W.R.) in England ; 
and Aberdeen, Forfar, and Ross in 
Scotland. 
Stock Prizes. 
Mr. Sanday (Chairman) reported 
that the question as to the advisa- 
bility of continuing classes for jams 
and preserved fruits, and cider and 
perry, at the Society’s Meetings had 
been discussed, and finally it had 
been decided to recommend the con- 
tinuance of the prizes for next year, 
and to refer back to the Seeds and 
Plants Committee, for further con- 
sideration, the conditions undei 
which the jams and fruit were to be 
exhibited. The preliminary consider- 
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