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Sixth, death. This sometimes occurs rather suddenly from 
the violence of the symptomatic fever induced. But those eases 
(as already stated), where there is a great tendency to effusion in 
all the quarters of the udder, with no indications of suspuration, 
great prostration and entire loss of appetite and rumination are, 
1 think, the most generally if not the most suddenly fatal. I 
incline to the opinion that very great functional, if not organic, 
disease of the heart has much to do with the fatality. 
Lastly. Although surveying the onset of the disease, the 
constitution may be at length destroyed and the animal sink, by 
the continued irritation of the morbid state of the udder, the 
constant discharge of matter from sinuses which have formed, or 
fall a prey to other diseases which this has induced. 
I trust that these hurredly put together remarks may form the 
basis of a practical and profitable discussion, which shall in great 
measure make up for lack of time and ability. 
The President complimented Mr. Barron very highly for his 
excellent paper, and a very free and profitable discussion followed, 
in which all the members present took part. 
It was then arranged that Mr. Robertson (Stonehaven) would 
bring forward an essay at next meeting. 
Yotes of thanks having been accorded to the essayist, the 
meeting adjourned to McDonald's Hotel, where they partook of 
an excellent dinner and spent a very agreeable afternoon. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
At the monthly meeting of the Society, held February 7th, 
Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., President, in the chair, 
Mr. Milward, chairman of the Stock Prizes Committee, reported 
“that letters had been read from several persons complaining of 
malpractices with regard to the exhibition of pigs, and that the 
committee recommended that the attention of the stewards and 
judges be called to this subject, and that any person found 
guilty shall net be allowed to exhibit in future. The committee 
also recommended the following addition to the rules of the 
Cardiff prize-sheet:— f No mare will be eligible for a prize unless 
certified, either at the date of entry, or between the date of entry 
and that of the show, to have had a living foal,—or that the foal, 
if dead, was born at its proper time,—in the year of the show. 
Or in the event of a marc being exhibited without a foal at foot, 
