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This treatment was continued with but slight variation, and notwith¬ 
standing that one or two deaths have since occurred, the results may be 
said to be most satisfactory. J. Wortley Axe, Professor. 
The Committee proposed for the consideration of the Highland 
Society and the Royal Agricultural Society of England, that each con¬ 
tribute a sum not exceeding £100 towards the prizes and expenses of 
the examinations in veterinary science ; that the written portion of the 
examination be held at Edinburgh and London simultaneously; and 
that the examination in Practical Pathology, in Dec., 1880, be held at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, the expenses of the examiners being paid by the 
Societies, and the second-class fares of the candidates also. 
This report was adopted. 
Hot in Sheep. 
At the request of the Committee, Professor Simonds had drawn up a 
short report on the Rot in Sheep, condensed from the revised edition 
of the treatise lately published by the Society and Mr. Murray, which 
goes fully into the whole subject; and they recommend it to be printed 
in the next number of the Journal. In this condensed report Professor 
Simonds stated that the animals must be carefully guarded against all 
vicissitudes of the weather by being folded in the best sheltered situa¬ 
tions, more especially at night. Their food should consist of a liberal 
supply of food, rich in flesh-forming principles, and also of such as 
contains a large proportion of sugar, starch, and similar materials, that 
the heat of the body may be kept up equally with nutrition. If placed 
on meadows or artificial grasses, the sheep should be often changed, 
care being taken to avoid those pastures which are wet and cold, or 
which contain inferior herbage. Manger-food must be supplied, and 
this should consist, in part at least, of crushed corn, of which beans, 
peas, lentils, &c., are to be preferred. Oats and maize are also good, 
and to these a moderate allowance of oilcake may be added. Frequent 
changing of the food will induce the animals to eat more, for which reason, 
when they are on the pastures, no objection is to be taken to an occa¬ 
sional supply of turnips or other roots; but, unless compelled by the 
character of the farm, and the system of cultivation, continuous folding 
on turnips should be avoided. Where this has to be done, great care 
will have to be exercised in regulating the quantity of turnips according 
to the condition of the crop, the state of the weather, &c. Under 
such circumstances an allowance of good hay, in addition to the other 
food, will be imperatively required. 
Medicinal agents will likewise have to be had recourse to, preference 
being given to those which impart tone and vigour to the system. 
Salt cannot be dispensed with. It does good in several ways. It is 
an agent which acts as a stimulant to the process of digestion, and, by 
its ready solution and free entrance into the blood, it supplies also 
any amount of soda which is required in the secretion of bile. 
The other medicinal agent to which reference has been made, as im¬ 
parting vigour to the system, is the sulphate of iron. As a tonic it is 
excelled by few, if by any, therapeutic agent; while the readiness by 
which it can be obtained, and the lowness of its price, give it an ad¬ 
vantage over many others. Sheep also do not object to take it with 
their food when mixed in proper proportions ; nor is it a matter of much 
moment if one animal should get rather more than his fellow, by more 
rapid or longer feeding at the trough. Sulphate of iron is likewise an 
excellent agent for the expulsion of several of the varieties of intestinal 
