250 



SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. 



that flock being away from public roads endangered it, and 

 rendered the chances greater that drovers' sheep would feed 

 by its side. 



The Allington flock communicated disease to the sheep 

 on Mr Harding's farm at Etchilhampton. Then Mr Stephen 

 Neate, whose lands adjoin Mr Parry's, discovered the malady, 

 but only after having been to a fair at Marlborough with a 

 lot of lambs. Fortunately Mr Neate was so quick in getting 

 back the lambs he had sold that they led to no further out- 

 breaks. I ascertained the existence of the disease at Stanton, 

 Horton, Hillwood, Avebury, and Langley farm. There was 

 no mystery as to the communication of the disease in any 

 case, with the exception of Mr Church's flock at Hillwood, 

 which, however, was folded by the roadside, where thousands 

 of sheep are constantly passing. The extent of the loss 

 sustained in Wiltshire is shown in the subjoined table. 



TABULAR STATEMENT AS TO SMALL-POX IN SHEEP IN WILTSHIRE. 



