268 Heport on the Parasitic Lung Disease of Lambs. 



10. How many breeding ewes are Ijept ? 



11. Wliat is the general management of the ewes, especially as to varietiesr 

 of food supplied to them, from the time they are put to the ram to the period 

 of lambing ? 



12. State the system which is adopted with regard to the other sheep op^ 

 the farm, and esjDecially with reference to the lambs being sold either fat ov 

 as store stock. 



13. What custom jwevails witli regard to stocking tlie farm with sheep 

 either for breeding or feeding? 



14. At what dates are the lambs dropped and weaned, as a rule ? 



15. After lambing, how are the ewes and lambs fed and managed until 

 weaning time ? 



16. Have the lambs ever been known to be diseased if after being weanedi 

 they have been kept exclusively on permanent pasture down to the end of the 

 year? 



17. If affected on permanent pasture, has the custom been to mow suck 

 pasture and feed the after grass, or to feed throughout the summer ? 



18. At what period of the year have the first indications of the lambs being 

 imhcalthy been observed ? 



19. Has the state of the weather influenced the attacks, and, if so, in what 

 manner ? 



20. Has the disease prevailed more or less every year, or have there beeii 

 years of freedom from it ? 



21. If the disease has been on the increase of late years, to what cause is it 

 attributed '? 



22. When the lambs have gone apparently healthy from permanent pasture 

 to rape, mustard, or other green crop of that year's produce, have they suffereA 

 from the disease ? 



23. On what evidence has reliance beeli chiefly placed that the lambs, 

 which subsequently showed symptoms of the disease, were in a perfectly 

 healthy condition when removed from permanent pasture to crops not 

 previously fed with slieep ? 



24. Suj^posing layers are fed with sheep and allowed to stand over for 

 feeding again in the following year, have the lambs pastured thereon been 

 early attacked or not ? 



25. Has it been observed that lambs which are grazed during the summer 

 on seeds, that had not been previously stocked with sheep, contract the 

 disease? 



26. When the lambs are unmistakably diseased, on what part of the farm 

 and on what food in particular, liave they been afterwards kept ? 



27. What symptoms do you deem to be characteristic of the disease ? 



28. How long a time usually elapses between the first indications of disease 

 and death ? 



29. Does scouring — diarrhoea — exist in all cases before death ? 



30. W^hat are the percentages of death over recoveries, or vice versa? 



31. Have you found any means by which the disease is kept in check or 

 even partially prevented ? 



32. Are any calves reared on the farm, and, if so, do they suffer from the 

 disease called "hoose " or " husk"? 



33. Have apparently healthy lambs, which had been reared with those that 

 were diseased, been kept as stock-sheep for use during the following or 

 succeeding years ? 



