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rid of it, the first market purchase 
was usually the means of bringing it 
back again. He thought it was very 
important that the directions in the 
leaflet that it was proposed to issue 
should be very specific as to the actual 
diagnosis of the contagious complaint, 
as compared with that which was 
merely accidental or mechanical. The 
directions should be perfectly plain 
to everybody interested in the subject. 
They should have reports, if possible, 
from different districts as to the 
prevalence of this contagious disease, 
so that flockmasters might in their 
own interests take care that the 
animals they purchased were free 
from the disease. General diffusion 
of knowledge was much more impor- 
tant than any legislation or Depart- 
mental Orders. They should trust 
to the general sense of the public to 
deal with it, as it would be very diffi- 
cult to control the disease in the 
same way as other contagious 
diseases. He thought that the re- 
print of Professor Brown’s paper in 
the Journal, with additions and 
alterations by the Professor, would 
be the best means of dealing with 
the disease in their present state 
of knowledge on the subject. The 
pathology of the disease was not, 
at present, fully understood, and 
required to be much further investi- 
gated. 
Professor Simonds said that, with 
reference to the pathology of foot- 
rot, he thought (notwithstanding the 
experiments which had been so suc- 
cessfully carried out by Professor 
Brown) that there would be the 
greatest possible difficulty on the part 
of owners, farmers, and others to 
distinguish the ordinary diseases of 
the sheep,which were exceedingly com- 
mon, and arose from very many differ- 
ent causes, from the true contagious 
foot-rot, and that being so, there 
might be great practical difficulties 
in the way of carrying out any regu- 
lations which would be in themselves 
sufficient to arrest the progress of 
foot-rot. They could not, under any 
circumstances, knowing that they 
were true cases of foot-rot, deal 
with the sheep at all, which thus 
became locked up on the farmers’ 
premises, and could not be turned 
into money. There were great diffi- 
culties in the way of dealing with 
this disease in the same way as with 
other contagious diseases of cattle and 
sheep, which could be readily recog- 
nised; but there were no difficulties 
in the way of further investigation, 
and he would be willing to lend a 
hand in carrying out any regulations 
that might be made. 
Earl Cathcart was very much 
obliged for the remarks of Professor 
Simonds, who took the same view of 
the subject as himself. It was still 
quite uncertain whether the conta- 
gion was taken from the foot locally, 
or whether with the food into the 
mouth, or in both ways. 
Sir John Thorold would only say, 
on the part of the Veterinary Com- 
mittee, that they had been for some 
time engaged, with the help of Pro- 
fessor Brown and the Royal Veterin- 
ary College, in investigations into the 
nature of foot-rot in sheep, and they 
were anxious to go on with them. 
Any information which they could ob- 
tain from America or otherwise would 
he published. 
Lord Cathcart’s motion having 
been seconded by Mr. San day, was 
then put and carried unanimously, as 
a rider to the report of the Veterinary 
Committee. 
Stock Prizes. 
Mr. Sanday (Chairman) said that 
the circumstances connected with the 
entry by Mr. Peter Blundell of the 
Shire stallion “ Prince Harold ” at the 
Doncaster Meeting of 1891 had again 
received careful consideration, and 
the Committee, not considering the 
explanation of the exhibitor as satis- 
factory, recommended that entries 
from Mr. Blundell be not accepted at 
future Meetings of the Society. The 
Committee reported that, as it ap- 
peared that the Jersey heifer exhibited 
in Class 86 by Mr. Gilbert Greenall 
was not “ Rose Adieu,” entered in the 
catalogue as No. 911, but another 
heifer born on a different date and 
with a different pedigree, the Secre- 
tary had been instructed to request 
an explanation from the exhibitor. 
Mr. Greenall replied that he had 
purchased this heifer with three 
others at the sale of Mr. G. W. 
Hastings’s stock at Great Malvern, 
and that the heifer was sold to him 
