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by specimens from Cheshire, preserved in spirit, having the 
warty outgrowths of the disease known as Chrysophlyctis 
endobiotica. 
The College also showed a large number of instructive 
exhibits relating to Veterinary Science and Apiculture. 
IV. Harper- Adams Agricultural College. — The exhibits from 
this College were divided into botanical, chemical, and 
veterinary sections. In the botanical section was a set of 
preparations in spirit showing the germination of wheat, 
barley, and oats at different stages ; also mounted in the 
same way were specimens of the different natural Orders 
of plants. Photographs were included of hedges and hedge- 
making plants, and with these were exhibited several 
models to illustrate how fences may be “laid” as well as 
different methods of growing hedges. In the chemical 
section the exhibits included a complete set of tubes 
illustrating the relative feeding propei’ties of milk, separated 
milk, butter milk and wfhey ; a set of tubes showing the 
amount of fat contained in milk, the result of a series of 
experiments to ascertain the effect of milking at different 
intervals. Another series of specimens illustrated the amounts 
of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash removed in a four- 
course rotation (wheat, roots, barley, clover). The veterinary 
section included specimens, models, and diagrams, illustrating 
the anatomy, pathology, and dentition of farm animals. 
V. University College of Reading. — The Agricultural Depart- 
ment of this College sent specimens of the chief British 
thistles with living seedlings of the same in different stages 
of development. A series of pot-cultures, illustrating the 
influence of graduated doses of nitrate of soda, sulphate of 
ammonia, superphosphate of lime, and sulphate of potash on 
barley and red clover, was also exhibited. Turfs were shown 
from plots of pasture at Chesham, Bucks., manured with various 
artificial fertilisers and farmyard dung. 
There were also on view specimen tubes illustrating 
the composition of various feeding stuffs used by farmers, 
as well as milk, cheese, and other dairy products. 
Common dairy bacteria were shown, and methods of testing 
milk for preservatives were demonstrated. 
VI. Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. — The College 
showed a diagram and specimens illustrating the results of 
manurial experiments on grass lands for fifteen years, 1889 to 
1904, and a case showing the chemical composition of certain 
foods. Some natural history exhibits included dried and 
preserved specimens and photographs of various insects, 
including lice, mites, ticks, &c., and showing their distinctive 
peculiarities. Dried specimens and drawings also illustrated 
