246 SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. 



Eoeulx lez Nivelles, and mixed with 700 or 800 more sheep, 

 soon manifested signs of the disease. Eight per cent, were 

 lost before a competent veterinarian was consulted. Separa- 

 tion and inoculation were resorted to, and owing to great 

 precautions taken, the disease was limited to the one flock. 



I particularly notice this outbreak in Belgium, as it shows 

 how German sheep travel far westward, crossing Hanover 

 into Holland, as well as through Holstein from Mecklenburgh, 

 for the English markets. 



Holland has suffered severely for the last four years. 

 Its sheep-rearing province is Drenthe, famed for its sandy 

 plains, heather, buck-wheat, and flocks of sheep. In no 

 other Dutch province are the flocks so large or so numerous. 

 Herr Moss, veterinary surgeon at Assen, has witnessed out- 

 breaks annually since 1858. He has inoculated many flocks, 

 and the losses Lave occasionally been very numerous. The 

 districts most injured by it in 1862 were Rolde Gieton, 

 Borger, Buiven, Peize, where it has been for two years, 

 Kolonie and Veenhuizen. In the two latter places it was 

 raging severely when I was in Holland. In 1861 the disease 

 appeared in Friesland, but there are no flocks of sheep there 

 of any importance, and it has not committed great ravages 

 in consequence. Some outbreaks have been witnessed in 

 Grb'ningen, but none in North and South Holland, or Zea- 

 land, so far as I could learn. 



That diseased sheep were, however, exported from Rotter- 

 dam early in 1862 for England, I had ample opportunity 

 of learning in the province of Utrecht. The farmers in 

 this province have flocks varying in number from 100 to 

 200 sheep. The country is open, and I met many sheep 

 crossing fields and travelling on the road. As in Wilt- 

 shire, the drovers prefer crossing country to the high roads, 

 and every outbreak that I could trace was attributed to 



