. ehange of food. MacAda 
On Tuesday eodera the 21st November, three of|i 
interest ti 
your i may as well state de were produced © ems 
ned, m I 
. the result has 
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he f Mr. Harvey, М t Crown 
Point, near rin on the 5th of СЕ? last, to 
examine. and cons side er the state of the lambs, whi ch 
were cattle plague, or rinderpest. 
My opinion then was that the, lambs, were 8 sufferi g 
| remaining 280 are, to all appearance, as well as ever 
they were, and are now i on to es s " par 
There is one interesting feature conn 
with t Lo 
disease worthy of notice. Out of the pee пакой V in| 
food 
every respect to what had killed several lambs of my 
h "n hafi 
f f that number only ' two (and those very weakly 
the late attack. 
I retained this opinion until Monday топца the 
20th of November, when I became so much a at 
the condition in which I found my flock of hoggets, реа 
both my Stepha and myself were impressed with 
аана) that they were suffering from rinderpest іп a 
most malignant form. 
"Tte "viol e омо has been so deeply interesting that 
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RA the particulars t the рош gh hun ns, 
if you will kindly insert т.а our convenien 
Y flock of uin ets c 87 "pea! Жа. 
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plenty of m from e they were first put 
folding. 
On КОШУ. the 18th of November my shepherd 
bserved on apis having SR DEM Prom 
the nose d mouth, and o ination the m pw 
was found to be sore, and eiiis spots. on the inside o 
the lips. On. the following morning, Sunday, two more 
ved of milk in London 
he 
on the Toripe, anl perd did | Ы suffer from close "d 
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power, and can now only say, that if my sheep 
affected with a disease similar to the rinderpest in 
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Thos. Palmer, Tottington, Thetford, 
ON LONDON MILK. 
[Read last Wednesday before the Society of Arts, by Mr. 
Cds Vac Morton. ] 
cattle, 16 is proved beyond the shadow of a'doubt that 
dair 
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| which partioulars bearta dà 
kw relate what 
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ever hente on ien producti 
r Brentwood... 
the 
Then as to the A 
arri; 
ould be сойобей Vene а very 
ime b а g unteer d ume The 
subject: уе suggested 12 months ago a r for 
and these died 
aring to dy a the Monday morning the appear- 
ance of nearly the whole lot was so Gals alarming 
that I felt paien I should lose the greater part of 
them. 
time could be commanded during October 
and cim mber to its examination for the purpose of 
this report. 
No justification will be considered necessary of a 
is r 
f from 80 to 
егу а of suffer grea e 
кїшїпош йе discharge eeke with blood 
out 
atte: 
worst cases 
eng ( аре h and nostrils, and hung at 
The a 
ast 5 Lois fe we chin. "ad morei with | 
СА е staggered as they w The tongue 
KOR Tie "Unt келч 
лы ee qx S could be and i n the sheep 
from mpanies who are Deed s 
ben from the distriet dial officers ‹ of the: 
polis, whose inspectors have the 
in specto; JOTS, 
down the 
e gums was very pale, and 
On 
here and there were Tii dead blue colour. 
of a 
UE the finger over the outside of the gums, the thi 
ole surface sloughed off like ше of thick white 
blotting pe i leaving the gums raw and skinless. In 
the 
tion to whom 
they have introduced me, F Љате, ha а 
frank replies to 
o all my questions; and it seemed i 
publie, whose interest in the subject I represented, 
ha d а | right to the information that was в ought. It w was 
e milder the gums and lips were much ulcer- 
ated; which qus ptoms extended through nearly the 
ew lot of EK There was no particular looseness | W 
of the bowels, or scouring as it is commonly called; but 
exi ent of some o anima d 
ой with blood. "These appearances were similar to 
Point, but m 
Шея WW wired ‹ on my farm, have never been 
off it, and we have not a сазе of з within 
10 miles T, however, es 
hate 
appea T 
hose I had са амл Mr. Harvey's sheep at Crown 
vita I have 
ties to have refused to me personally the insight that 
was desired into their respective shares in the t 
business of supplyin b 
seem di took my inquiries as having no personal obj 
but as emanating from that usable 
ubjec 
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houses wit thin their respective diio rom these - di 
| minimum, min of бой le 
reports of Dr. 
| of information on the dietaries. (бон mili d t 
s way to be cordially admitted that the mds | | poorer classes throughout the kingdom 
not ms with PET бм have had conversati 
with matters connected erg tio e йо m ga Е eneral railway traffic. ion wibi the п men in Pede] 
е, ч the population; а as since then 
excited ger interest, Bb to the diminished | Sf the na sappy to Bd of milk, E 
upply of milk which has latterly been occasioned by | Mansfield and Bedford i Ensa in 
the cattle plague. It'w к however, until a fruitless | cured for me as a so EEE ps z мев 
tempt uomen es made to enlist anot i aud & good" 200 of information or 
e pos tter opportunities than mine of |, consumption ilk in 
investignting wa ара „ that I resolved to devote | families. Moreover , I have pud e po 
whatever 
under 
the food of inmates has been 
Smith to Govi 
ta as we thus. obtain to the pope 
lation of London, we learn whether it can gd 
sidered well-fed or not as regards its milk. 
; grea Here the question of Quality comes in, Starting 
ondon with milk, but they Cur with a ipee strong = ression that Күзе з 
almost invariably ary 
you yo ur 
ed, I am 
ublie in the su 
referred. Although poer aware a it evi 
is his castle, 
+ 
ved m mys һеер wi affected 
with ri imodistaly went to Mr. Woods | 
(Lord Walsingham’s s agent) to зр him as to what 
I had тезу йе nder the circumstances, 
Mr. W ent with бк to look at the еер, мй 
worse than anything he had eve 
and the symptoms were v bul t, 
ery " 
sidering the situation of my low. ndi is d. a Er "m 
fence and abuts on semi 
n Park, and that shee 
had never been near any other sheep or ces iie 
he did wA believe they were meeng from rind 
di M NT s would place them unrese 
dy 
eatment he thought he БОША ано first р 
Ven, meis even i ventured an opinion that he hoped I| oi 
should not lose 20 mor 
mana; t, and pe 
was only too E t A e to this proposition, and | the Vale of Glou 
been re satisfactory than I could | shi 
— have Ser doe 
his own preparing, which h 
re 
Mr. Woods gave Da every rie в dose of medicine of | coun r, the precise 
d been successful in saving | of quantity and produce on the 
many sheep ric the late autumn, and А were Gloucestershire, ha i 
Tt 
lay жч уоп. 2 it becomes necessary in the outset 
to state the of imformation which were open to T 
the worst cases were found dead, and, as it та 
iver 
to the touch, the lungs were we — 
fourth stomach covered wil ith streaky blood-like spots, 
appea: es а 
iseased, being friable supplied to A the metropolitan 
congested, the given 
en by Dr. 
of the quan tity and quali 
r o 
The wind pipe was much inflamed, the to 
the 44 divisions i in which 
and airo ie к of aper matter, En the 
deve of their licensed cowhouses, t and they and the 
ery 
ушеу kne knew ego gr this | mai Дам) that this 
thos 
ht бырах». нее 
They have to be ва ,propitiated. And ор less of a ша pply, 
however able СЯ 5 poo care of themselves, | dilution, more or less, to meet even a со 
Government made, and publie opinion sanctions, | end still more is a stretch of thi 
so many lardo ia their behalf, that an inquiry | meet an uncertain demand, 
, | conducted i in their interest аа to be received with | da ay to day. But indeed it 
а civility and friendline ia ich in this particular | nourishmen t 
d, 
e result of this inquiry that I have now to | dilu 
returns for many years these dairi 
ocester Court farm, асоей at milking ti 
arrison ; 
ndin 
Е —— ing poured. 
P " m ie necessities 
g 
that t 
ity of the milk | have been pu 
zug feeding, there are of Wimpole Street, the de 
y of milk | bone district, has tr good 
railways һауе | which he has m , provi a 
returns of their imports—most of | dishonesty ot the instances & ned. 
9 mo po! 
them for jm Jem all of them for several months. | medical officer of S 
of 
down to the paun 
(oy ceri sheep had a second dose 
e returns of the number C cows milked in them 
А mede and at nt. Thanks for the most part to 
of medicine, and, when б зара) the mouths of the | Һе Бч to whom ti otaa y 
sheep, my agar A said to me, “These sheep are|the medical officers of the several districts, I have 
improving; for the bing over, ES their | exam: ouses in t| endon distriet, in the 
gums are getting pinky, or their n. Тһе | Islington district, in iW їп St, Pancras, in 
Sheep were dose of medicine, Belgravia, in the poies the Cit Chelsea, 
improving, 
т falios treatment carried out, has | ; 
been the under Providence of saving my fl flock of 
Th i LA moss 
i - Limeh Nod pru have thus seen 51 cow- 
usi he risks which 
ана аас эчем conversation with và orem nine “а "^ D 
» , me аз 
alljP and in every case 
бнт or their men has informed 
t of the 
the conscience of the p m 
tion of the milk be produoed y pe 
of water or by feeding the cows 
ees v ae 
e, I ва wa 
ing conveniently near to 
St. Georges, Han 
its producers run? 
h dictates the 
which limits tbe 
pik me 
pape inspectors, its M 
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