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Monthly Council, June G, 1894. 
recent years an editorial note on the Cultiva- 
tion of Sugar Beet appeared in Part II. of the 
Journal for 1890 (page 441), and a special 
article on “ Sugar Beet Cultivation in Aus- 
tria-Hungary,” by the Secretary, appeared in 
Part II. of the Journal for 1891 (page 325). 
Many attempts have been made in this 
country to grow beetroot for sugar, but none 
of them have met with success. Although 
in an unusually dry and sunny summer, such 
as that of last year, beetroot with sufficient 
saccharine may be grown, yet it is doubtful 
whether with the average English summer 
the cultivation of beetroot for sugar in this 
country would prove remunerative. 
Earl Cathcabt said that the 
Council were exceedingly obliged to 
Mr. Whitehead, who had given them 
some very valuable books for the 
library. As the Society had now 
such good book-shelf accommodation 
in their new house, the Journal Com- 
mittee would be very much obliged 
for any further presentations. 
Chemical. 
Mr. Stanyforth presented the 
quarterly report of this Committee 
upon cases of adulteration in manures 
and feeding-stuffs, and a report from 
the Woburn Sub-Committee as to 
details connected with the Society’s 
Experimental Farm. Arrangements 
had been made for visits to the farm 
of students connected with the Cam- 
bridge and Counties Agricultural 
Education Scheme, and of members 
of the Leicestershire Surveyors’ Insti- 
tute. 
On the motion of Mr. Stanyforth, 
the quarterly report of the Chemical 
Committee was adopted, and ordered 
to be published in the Journal (see 
page 322). 
At the suggestion of Sir John 
Thorold, the date of the Com- 
mittee’s annual visit to the Experi- 
mental Farm at Woburn was fixed 
for Thursday, July 26, 1894, instead 
of Wednesday, June 13, as arranged 
last month. 
Botanical and Zoological. 
Lord Moreton reported that the 
Consulting Botanist had carefully 
distributed the spores of the fungus 
which causes the “ finger-and-toe ” in 
turnips in eleven plots, and that in ten 
of them he had added the following 
substances to observe their action on 
the fungus : — Three strengths of lime, 
gypsum, soot, kainit, copper sulphate, 
iron sulphate, bleaching powder, and 
corrosive sublimate, one plot having 
nothing added to it. In all the plots 
the seedling turnips were attacked 
and destroyed by the little parasitic 
fungus Pythiwni de Baryanum, except 
in that dressed with corrosive subli- 
mate. This poison not only com- 
pletely destroyed the Plasmodiophora, 
but the Pythium also, though it did 
not affect the seedling turnips. Some 
indications of the attack were 
observed, but the rapid injury caused 
by the Pythium overpowered the 
plants, and prevented the “ finger- 
and-toe ” developing. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thorold (Chairman) re- 
ported the unanimous recommend- 
ation of the Committee that Professor 
Brown be asked to accept the office 
of Consulting Veterinary Surgeon to 
the Society in conjunction with Pro- 
fessor Simonds, and that Mr. 
Ashworth be asked to act as Chair- 
man of the Committee during Sir 
John Thorold’s tenure of office as 
President of the Society. 
The following report had been re- 
ceived from Professor Brown : — 
PLEURO-rNEUMONiA. — In connexion with 
the outbreak of this disease discovered in 
Kent towards the end of April, seven cattle 
affected with pleuro-pneumonia were 
slaughtered, and 150 others which had been 
iu contact were aiso slaughtered by order of 
the Board of Agriculture. 
Swine Fever. — 620 swine died from swine 
fever in the four weeks in which G,619 were 
slaughtered by order of the Board of Agri- 
culture as diseased or in-contact animals, 
while 131 suspected pigs were slaughtered, 
but found on post-mortem to be free from the 
disease. 
Anthrax. — There were thirty-seven fresh 
outbreaks of this disease in four weeks. 
Seventy-nine animals were attacked, of 
which sixty-seven died, four recovered, and 
eight remained alive diseased when the last 
published return was made up. 
Sir John Thorold, in moving 
the adoption of this report, said it 
was his pleasant duty to ask the 
Council to appoint Professor Brown 
as Consulting Veterinary Surgeon to 
the Society. In view of the altered 
circumstances of Professor Brown’s 
connexion with the Board of Agri- 
culture, the Council would wish to 
attach him to the Society, and he did 
not think that any better plan could 
be adopted than by appointing him 
