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shed. It may be interesting for your lordship to know 

 that I had the shed at Child's-hill Farm immediately 

 cleansed with disinfectants, and washed with hot lime, 

 &c., and bought twelve fresh cows and placed them there 

 on the ICth, which are now in perfect health; and a 

 neighbour situated midway between here and that 

 farm had twenty-three cows lying in a field; the 

 plague took twenty of them, and in three weeks he 

 replaced them with new stock, which are still healthy, 

 he having had them a month. Another neighbour, a 

 mile distant, had a fine herd of seventy-two cows 

 (English) lying in the fields a fortnight ago. The 

 plague broke out among them, and now he has only 

 eight left in health. From my own experience, and 

 from all I can learn, I believe the disease is atmo- 

 spheric, and of a typhoid character. The first symptom 

 in a milking cow is an almost entire loss of milk, then 

 loss of appetite, a watery discharge from the eyes, 

 nostrils, and mouth, which thickens as the disease 

 develops itself; rumination ceases, her ears hang 

 down, her eyes are heavy and sunken, bloody matter 

 is seen in the excrement, great debility is seen, 

 diarrhoea sets in, and death takes place in from three 

 to nine days. I have read of iron water being a 

 preventive of the disease. All the water your cows 

 have drunk comes six miles through rusty iron pipes." 



NOTE N. 



THE CATTLE MURRAIN AT HOLLY LODGE. On 

 the 27th of June an Alderney bull was purchased 

 at Bushey, near Watford, and placed with the rest 



