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FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. 
This disease, which was reported to have lately broken 
out in a virulent form in the North of France, has now 
appeared among the cows in several of the communes of the 
Department of the Somme. 
The disease is also gradually extending in this country. 
SHEEP-POX. 
This destructive malady, which lately appeared in the 
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, has now become 
epizootic in character, and is reported to be extending to¬ 
wards the western districts, although inoculation and isolation 
of infected herds are being practised. 
Facts and Observations. 
Melbourne Social Science Congress. —We have 
received the South Australian Register , from which we learn 
that Mr. Thomas Chalwin, M.R.C.V.S., has been elected, at 
a meeting of the General Council of the Melbourne Social 
Science Congress, a member of that body in the Department 
of Agriculture. 
Effect of Feeding-cakes on Milk Production. 
By G. I. Hengefeld (Bled . Centr ., 1880, 233).—The author 
carried out his experiments at the Royal Veterinary School 
in Plolland upon five cows, which for a while received 1 kilo, 
of maize cake in addition to their ordinary fodder, and in the 
second period the same quantity of linseed cake. There 
was no difference in the quantity of milk; the mean of six 
analyses showed the following variations in composition 
percentages: 
Water Dry sub. Fat. Milk-sugar. Albumin. 
Maize. . . 86*35 . 13*65 . 4*40 . 4*13 . 5*12 
Linseed . . 89*915 . 14*085 . 4*56 . 4*01 . 5*515 
Both kinds of food produced milk of excellent quality, but 
the author states that the milk, butter, and cheese, after the 
feeding on maize, were of a more agreeable flavour than after 
the other fodder; the same should hold true of the flesh of 
maize-fed sheep.—J. F .—Jour. Chem . Soc. 
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