Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1897-98, Vol. 8 The fact that tuberculosis is an infectious disease due to a specific cause is the real starting point for its suppression; for, if it were not an infectious but a hereditary disease, then our hopes of ultimate victory, considering how many of our cattle are affected, would be but small indeed, and the revelations of tuberculin, by far the most powerful diagnostic yet discovered, would only help to make the end seem farther off than ever. The old belief that tuberculosis is hereditary - in the sense of being handed on from sire or dam to progeny - is still held by some veterinarians and by a large proportion of our stock breeders and stock owners, but this belief has declined among medical men, and it will also undoubtedly decline among veterinarians and stock-owners. This old belief in heredity, modified to the extent that tubercular ancestors hand on to their descen dants a hereditary tendency to acquire the disease, is now more widely supported, and, later on in this article, it will be somewhat closely examined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1901-1902, Vol. 12 But, worst of all, the open-field system of cultivation, bou1 up as it was with the grazing of the tillage fields by stock durii the autumn of each year, made the cultivation of roots at clover impossible, and without these two types of crop a ration rotation was absolutely precluded. And not only was a common interest in arable land fatal agricultural progress, but the same held true in, regard to t common pasturage of live stock. The opportunities for t judicious mating and selection of animals - which, combin with a liberal diet, are the basis of improvement in live stock were altogether absent under a system of common grazir Disease, too, would necessarily be rife amongst flocks and her into which any member of a community had the right to tu animals of doubtful health, if not actually suffering from a speci ailment. So detrimental was the system to the interests stock-breeding that, as Sir John Sinclair, the first President the old Board of Agriculture, pointed out in 1795, it was font more profitable to hire enclosed land for the breeding of t' )etter classes of sheep than to turn them on to the commo for nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, 1892-93, Vol. 3 The Council, in submitting their Annual Report, again con gratulate the members upon the continued prosperity of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association, 1890-91, Vol. 1 During the past year deaths and resignations have deprived it of 71 Members, but its ranks have been recruited by the addition of 123 new ones. The total number of Members at present on the Society's books is 1263, as against 1205 last 1037. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, Vol. 6: 1895-96 XII. Cider-making in France 126 By R. Neville Grenville, F. G. Farwell, F. J. Lloyd, and Thos. F. Plowman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.