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Monthly Council, November 2, 1892. 
to observe that, in consequence of the 
London County Council having de- 
clined to put in force the provisions 
of the Order authorising compensa- 
tion for slaughter out of local rates, 
and the Board of Agriculture having 
necessarily revoked the Orders pre- 
viously existing, there were at present 
no regulations providing for the 
slaughter of horses affected with 
glanders or farcy in the Metropolis. 
The Committee had considered 
Lord Cathcart’s resolution passed at 
the last Council meeting, on the sub- 
ject of contagious foot-rot in sheep, 
and they recommended that the fol- 
lowing letter, on the practice of the 
United States in regard to this dis- 
ease, received by the Secretary from 
Dr. D. B. Salmon, be published with 
the proceedings of the Council for 
general information : — 
Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Animal Industry, 
[copy]. Washington, D.C. 
October 15th, 1892. 
My dear Sir,— 1 am in receipt of 
your letter of the 1st instant on the 
subject of contagious foot-rot of 
sheep, and also of the pamphlets 
on this subject which you were 
kind enough to send me. 
In regard to your inquiry as to 
the regulations made by this De- 
partment for the suppression of 
this disease within the United 
States, I would say that up to the 
present no regulations have been 
established for this purpose. The 
disease is treated as a contagious 
disease with imported animals. 
These animals coming to the United 
States are destined mostly for 
breeding purposes, and go to farms 
in the various parts of the country. 
For this reason, animals found 
affected are held in quarantine 
until they are cured. We have, 
however, found very little of this 
trouble among imported animals. 
If I remember correctly, only one 
herd has been held on this account. 
As our flock-owners have come 
to understand the communicable 
nature and treatment of this 
disease, its prevalence has been 
greatly reduced, and for the last 
tew years we have scarcely heard 
of it in this country. On account 
of the mildness of the disease, and 
the comparative ease with which it 
may be treated and cured when 
taken in its early stages, and con- 
sidering how seldom we hear of its 
existence, I should doubt the 
advisability, with us, of adopting 
the rigid measures which would be 
necessary for the suppression of a 
contagious disease. 
I think the farmers of this and 
most other countries would be dis- 
posed to favour thorough measures 
for the control of such destructive 
maladies as tuberculosis and 
glanders before such comparatively 
unimportant affections as foot-rot 
are taken up. 
With thanks for your enclosures, 
I am very sincerely yours, 
(Signed) D. E. Salmon 
Chief of Bureau. 
Mr. Ernest Clarke, 
Secretary, Royal Agricultural 
Society of England. 
Copies were laid upon the table 
of Professor Brown’s pamphlet on 
“ Contagious Foot-rot in Sheep," and 
of his leaflet on the same subject, 
issued during the recess, and the 
Secretary had reported that a large 
number of copies of the latter had 
been circulated. 
The Committee recommended 
that prizes be offered at the Chester 
Meeting of 1893 for Horse-shoeing 
Competitions as follows : — 
Class 1. Hunters £G, £4, £3, £2, £1. 
Class 2. Agricultural 
Horses ... £8, £ I, £3, £2, £1. 
The Worshipful Company of Far- 
riers had consented, as last year, to 
present (with the Freedom of their 
Gruild) the two first prizes in each 
class, and to admit the prize-winners 
to the Register of the Company free 
of charge. The Committee recom- 
mended that facilities be afforded 
the Farriers’ Company to utilise the 
services of the judges of horse-shoeing 
at Chester for an examination of the 
competitors not winning prizes, with 
the view to their admission, if success- 
ful, to the Register of Shoeing Smiths, 
under the Company’s usual conditions. 
The suggestion made by the judges 
at Warwick that separate prizes 
should be offered for “ doormen ’’ or 
“ nailers-on ” had been further con- 
