ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 361 
The Council think that suck a scheme would tend to encourage 
the study of cattle practice among the students. This branch of 
veterinary science is carried on with difficulty in London, as cattle 
are rarely, if ever, sent for treatment to the Eoyal Veterinary 
College. The Council, however, have been glad to learn that the 
Eoyal Veterinary College have lately made arrangements to send 
a class of students, under a professor, twice or three times a 
week to the Metropolitan Cattle Market, and also to the foreign 
market at Deptford. 
The Council also think that the extension of time to two years 
after taking the diploma will act favorably in inducing young 
veterinary surgeons to study cattle practice after obtaining their 
diploma. 
I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, 
(Signed) Wm. Hy. Coates, Secretary. 
H. M. Jenkins, Esq., Secretary, 
Eoyal Agricultural Society. 
The committee have to report that the services of an inspector 
of the Eoyal Veterinary College have been required in five cases 
by members of the Society during the past month. The com¬ 
mittee have received from the College the following reports on 
the outbreaks of disease : 
March 23rd, 1879. 
Sir, —I have to report, for the information of the Veterinary 
Committee, that during the last three weeks I have made three 
visits into the country for the purpose of investigating cases of 
disease affecting either cattle or sheep. 
One of these, and the only one now necessary to be published, 
was on March 8th, when I inspected a flock of sheep belonging to 
W. C. Morland, Esq., at Lamberhurst Court, Kent, among which 
several losses had recently occurred. The flock consisted of in¬ 
lamb ewes, 170 young ewes, and thirty old ones, which had been 
kept separate during the winter. At the time of my visit nine of 
the latter had died, and two of the former; several were ill, and 
fresh cases kept occurring day by day at shorter or longer periods 
after giving birth to their lambs. The malady was precisely of 
the same nature, and had for its origin allied causes to those 
which were reported on by my colleague (Prof. Axe) to the com¬ 
mittee at its last meeting. As in the instances therein named, so 
in these, medical treatment proved of very little worth when the 
disease was fully established. It was, therefore, to preventive 
measures that attention had to be given, and especially to such 
as would lead to a richer and healthier quality of blood being 
formed for sustaining the organism under the additional strain 
made upon it by the act of parturition. Eor this purpose the 
innutritious grass, upon which the ewes had been mainly kept 
during the whole winter, was ordered to be discontinued to as 
great an extent as possible, and its place supplied by good hay, 
