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11. What proportion of ^inoculated animals have be¬ 
come ill, when placed under the same conditions as those 
which had been inoculated ? 
12. Have you used salt to combat pleuro-pneumonia? 
13. What have been the results? 
14. What (after your own experience, and of the cases 
which have come under your own knowledge) is your opinion 
relative to— 
a. The prophylactic value of inoculation ? 
1. Compared to the other means employed, as remedies 
against pleuro-pneumonia ? 
FORTHCOMING AGRICULTURAL MEETING IN BRITTANY. 
Mons. E. Rouher, the French Minister of Agriculture, 
Commerce, and Public Works, has just issued a notice of an 
agricultural meeting, to be held at Vannes, in Brittany, from 
the 8th to the 13th of May, I860. 
The departments to which this especially extends com¬ 
prise those of Loire-Inferieure, Cotes-du-Nord, Finisterre,Ille- 
et-Vilaine, Moblhan, Maine-et-Loire, and of Vendee. 
The principal prize, amounting to 3000 francs, and a 
silver cup of the value of 3000 francs, will be given to the 
proprietor of the best cultivated farm in the department of 
Morbihan. 
Gold and silver medals will be awarded by the Minister 
according to the proposition of the jury, to those persons 
who have improved their farms by drainage, irrigation, the 
erection of suitable farm buildings, &c., in the several 
departments which are to be represented. 
A sum of 300 francs, and silver and bronze medals, will be 
placed at the disposal of the jury for distribution among the 
holders of the best cultivated lands. 
Prizes for cattle will be awarded according to the following 
scale: 
First Division.— PARTHENAISE, CHOLETAISE, OR NANTAISE 
CATTLE. 
BULLS. 
First Section.—For the best Bull bom between the 1st of May, 1858, and 
the 1st of May, 1859. 
First prize, a gold medal and 600 francs. 
Second prize, a silver medal and 500 francs. 
Third prize, a bronze medal and 400 francs. 
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