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FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 
of walking exercise on the road every day for a fortnight pre¬ 
vious to calving as a very successful preventive. 
Mr. Lowe, in advocating preventive measures, advised turning 
the cow on a bare pasture twice a day, three hours each time dur¬ 
ing the fortnight previous to parturition, and when in the shippon 
allowing her little or no foodbut this he only put in practice 
in the case of a suspicious animal. 
From a question put to the members by the Chairman it was 
elicited, as the opinion of the majority, that the flesh of animal 
the subject of parturient apoplexy is fit for human food provided 
the cow be slaughtered not later than about the twenty-fourth 
hour after “ going down. 5 ' 
Before dispersing, the Secretary announced to the members 
that Mr. T. Hopkin had kindly volunteered a paper for the next 
meeting on “Some of the Diseases of the Horse's Boot." 
W. Augustus Taylor, 
Hon. Sec. 
IMPORTANT DEPUTATION FROM THE ROYAL 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY TO THE VICE- 
PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. 
THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
The following deputation from the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England was received by the Right Hon. 
W. E. Forster, M.P., Vice-President of the Privy Council, at the 
Privy Council Office, on Thursday, the 4th July; Sir Watkin 
W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., President; Earl of Powis; Hon. Wil- 
braham Egerton, M.P.; Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart., M.P.; 
Colonel Kmgscote, C.B., M.P.; Mr. J. Dent Dent, M.P.; Mr. 
T. Statter, Mr. IP. S. Thompson, Mr. W. Torr; Mr. AY. E. 
Welby, M.P.; and Mr. H. M. Jenkins, Secretary. 
Sir Watkin Wynn having introduced the deputation, 
Mr. II. S. Thompson (of Kirby Hall, York) stated that the 
Council of the Royal Agricultural Society were anxious to bring 
prominently before the notice of the Government the fact that 
foot-and-mouth disease in an unusually virulent form is at the 
present time causing great loss of meat, both by loss of condition 
in, and death of (particularly in the case of young stock) the 
animals attacked, and by the fear of the disease inducing farmers 
to send cattle to market before they have arrived at the proper 
age and condition. The evil arising from this latter effect of the 
prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease he regarded as highly im- 
