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Wentworth L. Scott, possesses more than the average pro¬ 
portion of nitrogen, fat, phosphoric acid, and the alkalies. 
Its cultivation, says Dr. Milligan, admits of almost boundless 
extension, every probability being in favour of the opinion 
that the yet uncultivated portion of the colony contains lands 
of the richest character, and that as these are brought under 
tillage, a very much higher average yield of wheat will be 
obtained, altogether independently of increment from im¬ 
proved modes of culture. 
REPORT ON THE EMPLOYMENT OE A FRENCH REMEDY 
FOR THE CURE OF ROT IN SHEEP. 
Presented to the Royal Agricultural Society 
By Professor J. B. Simonds. 
It will be remembered that in the early part of the year 
M. Trehonnais called the attention of the agricultural com¬ 
munity to a remedy employed in some parts of France for 
the rot in sheep, which was much extolled for its curative 
properties, and that the council, on the recommendation of the 
veterinary committee, resolved to purchase some sheep for 
experiment, and voted a sum of £12 for the purpose, M. 
Trehonnais having very liberally engaged to obtain a suffi¬ 
cient quantity of the agent for trial in this country. 
In accordance with this resolution, instructions were given 
me to procure such animals as I deemed fitting for the pur¬ 
pose, and to commence the experiment as early as circum¬ 
stances would permit. In selecting the sheep, which were 
of the improved Dorset breed, I took care that they should 
be of the same age as near as possible, be also in a condition 
warranting the belief that they would survive long enough to 
give a fair trial to the medicine, but be in different stages of 
the malady. I preferred one-year-old sheep, as offering most 
of these advantages, and for the further reason that an 
approximation could be made as to the time they had been 
the subjects of the malady. Everything being arranged, the 
experiment was commenced on April 22nd, the first thing 
done being to divide the sheep into two parts, leaving one 
moiety at the Royal Veterinary College and sending the 
other to my farm, Oakington, in the parish of Harrow. This 
proceeding was deemed important, as each division would 
be placed under totally different circumstances as to the 
