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on one side for a moment the question of the effects of un¬ 
ripe, luxuriant crops of grass in the production of blood 
diseases, we may appeal to science and practice in proof of 
the facts relating to their low feeding value; and in the next 
place, we may inquire what steps the stock owner should 
take to neutralise the injury which is likely to result from 
the consumption of food which is abundantly charged with 
water, but wanting in the elements on which the growth of 
fat and flesh depend. 
In theory the remedy for the evils above stated is easy 
enough to select; but, unfortunately, the circumstances of 
its application are not always favorable. Good dry, nutritive 
manger food should undoubtedly be used as supplementary to 
the innutritious, unripe grasses. It is not necessary to inform 
the breeder and feeder of stock what food substances are 
likely to prove most valuable. The real difficulty is the 
cost of such stuffs as oil cake, oats, maize, meal, hay, &c.; 
but a little reflection will suffice to show practical men that 
the outlay will be remunerative. In fact, the addition of 
concentrated foods to the watery fodder on which animals 
have for some time past subsisted seems to be the only feasible 
way to protect them from those maladies which are likely to 
supervene in the immature state of the system which has 
necessarily resulted from the peculiar climatic conditions 
under w r hich we have suffered. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals, 
REGULATIONS FOR SALE OF MILK IN MELBOURNE. 
The Melbourne Chemist and Druggist states that the 
City Health Committee have framed a series of regulations 
which it is proposed the corporation should adopt, and the 
purveyors of milk within the city be invited to voluntarily 
subscribe to, pending legislation on the subject. These regu¬ 
lations, which are based upon the 34th section of the Con¬ 
tagious Diseases (Animals) Act, England, 1878, provide that 
in the event of a dairyman entering into the covenant his name 
shall be advertised in three Melbourne newspapers at least 
once in three months, and that such notification will be equiva¬ 
lent to a guarantee that he will carry out the following pro- 
