this subject A been already stated in the Agri- 
ie cs E 
P e ede to injure them 
* to pich P . fact in 
per seded, hiec and on t 
"T ders . = arsenic. ury who bad ui 
— * - decide the case —.— Messrs. ELLIO 
K gave Perg for the latter, carryin, 
damages inc and e 
in the death of the sheep. The first was, that 
the dip was too strong, and that the poison had 5000 
been 8 by the dis, 22 thereby caused 
the death of the sheep. The second theory was, 
tha i 
washed by rain on to the Grass, the Mp ite t ^ 
Grass, and were thereby Apna In the absene 
of direct e Syris either of the two todas 
might have * ght probable or at least pos- 
sible. Whenev r the chemist w s to ld of e 
C 
Tea 
were y^ once started to account 
the 
ground th at danger is to pes appre rim from the 
1 of arsenical solutions over farms, a 
is vi 
Holstein, he says that in wo se two Duchies 
nds 
nated about the country with impunity. 
e conclusions which he vM from the expe- 
ai 
y [accidents ol 1 15 s aie ‘considering the enor- | 
ist | mou unt of arsenic »ph or dipping purpose 
th y | wholesale poisoning can be 
s 
a arsenical tion to a certain extent, extent Tat ben that carelessness on the part of the 
his men at Burton, during an 
cannot see how any iii 3 80 patent. 
one for a moment ent enter. 
very great regr 
with et th 
oy yes last week of the Rey E Annone 
1 - 4. S. Hare 
College, at Ci ; ln] 
ollege, a hc cross The yes t high sta. 
sing of the college is greatly due td his ¢ 
on 
ral College, which had at that time f, 
— ute—the students being ben rh 
eim — but recalling the smissed 
| riments made in concert with D 
ollows : 
or suffering from scab, with extensive eruption, or ‘foot 
feel, in arsenical solutions, varying in strength, is un- 
attended by 2 "elfects and proves salutary to 
alamity 
was informed that eof the 15 viae which Ph 
had mem to dip the » Mir aisi mening? entire, 
he said that 5 e dip 
e 
tions; but he stated to t — ^ s Was | 
1s Own 
risk, dip them i in the Vah hte by isole 
the rem kage, and whether the animals 
ai ed under the ordeal, “that he 
* 2d. That the congregation of sheep, after dipping, 
where 5o is not allowed them, is unattended 
— of 
“lst. That the immersion of iie whether sound Yin 
increased to any as th e te can am- 
fortably accommodate, while the out-students are 
o be 
dang 
* Sa. That all the sheep having remain: 
ed damp from . 
24 to 36 hours Ms being 3 0 cutaneous absorption | | 
hav 7 
during the EEn R period that the sheep continued | c 
wet; but no unfavourable symptoms ensued, indeed t A 
the reverse. 
- 4th. The absence of the slightest change in health, 
ifficult: is 
nthe town of "ci iren titles 
We NE o 
lived, o 
om Went) sa SS stand or fall by the result. | 
armer refused to settle the point by experi- | even medicinal doses by the mouth, leads me to infer, 
ment. He was told by scientific men that that 1 : 
the 
| skin, it i is quite insufficient to develop the physiological | y. 
on ES 5 of arsenie to the lower animals 
penetrate the system of a sheep by absor orption by t. 
rey 
ew. eadily 
e absorbed Ban. aten abraded 9 r five the 
with- 
** 5th. tion of arsenic is n 
healt! f skin, E ANE ie the arsenic actin 
of his success in the complete organisation of the 
establishment, that the whole machinery of tle 
d harmonious action, 
suddenly 
college continues in full an 
though its revered head has been thus 
moved. 
The tori ue » of ee clay land | 
Wheat — refer ecent adver- - 
He was mere opinion S as tisement 
out the basement of e. ent, should not rule | astringent on the sores endering the latter. as keen ani last 
eiie wd on his side, and he was desirous of ined eable, probably, as “the “sninjared skin. This if 
He could have ied Mu pee pn gs e lente w — 8 
that his do Rad Dos: , “6th. It impossible "8 poison sheep by| been alread 
; ingle ca salty mat "s solutions, apes the liquid eight were then ‘‘ gru 
the last 1 — about 2 000 sheep had A i io m y misc 2 
di , and had i the better for it; j| “7th. “Arsenal eee. it quen — tl — deep, and thoroughly disi 
n|or mai 
“sth, A. ders partake of Grass and other food | POY 
wise MS of being. absorbed by the ge of acr 
which has been smeared or soaked with an Pme 
MM 8 the presence of soft s 
ent. He states this offer was not accepted.” 
, Mr. Pasko’ who i is clearly of opinion that Mr. 
L e having eaten of Grass on 
His € tn nal er were nevertheless made, 
men whose evidence on the trial must have 
snd 
ts are reported in this paper by n me 
ich th ical fluid rom SPAM from their 
s, thus sums up 
tt Here 9 Due to we impregnation — = 
gen by p —introduction of arse 
S. been disregarded by the jury “tie o whom the 
arsenic in 
the fleece of each sheep bathed, while in the cas 
of two other sh ipping mixtures in the 3 
the quantity is upwards of 330 grains per sheep. 
In order then to test the effect of the materials | p 
ee, these baths are compounded, a number 
were as i i ee 
liquids, various strengths with 
s 0 ne wi thout Se 
being dui Wa “ad in which sheep y infected vi te the 
scab, and d therefore fore with unsound dipped | is 
and 1 nd harm followed. 
conclusion to which Dr. Macapa i is 3 2 out it 
—— ye 
ee expe 
easonably fit, dii prope — bn th 4 
c pine of exe UP ‘used according "t he 
directions affixed to each package.” 
Mr. Jonx "ees 8 eontribution to this es 
states that with Pages = sheep dipping, th 
e 
ntary e un n existence of that ¢ cin ie T 
asosa of the stomach and puces of the 
sheep—and lastly, that se ae N cannot 
ski Mr. 
; in fi ^ that 
tot, of Berwick, is to be Siete to the 
amount of 14004. "ind Min. 3 his mixture 
was, on the ground of mere othesis, wet 
orted by a single NIFI, declared to b 
3 fit to sed according to the p 
—' Itis my firm belief that arsenie is | 
raed ia meeting of the 9 
"apn ers’ Olub, by J. T. B 
In some of the — in in Gloucestershir a 
commodation for stock is nearly the same ips ; 
years ago, and the description of it uns te te 
intelligent writer in 1787 stan 
n x am bo A a 
sam 
| (page 18, V 1 1 ic ar cl is 
e buildings an ards of the Cotswold 
e hi 
Th 
since then, but they are by no means 
which far mers 
* precautions 2 have especially been 1 
on, are universally ne to farmers, are 
st, Keeping the sheep’s head out wt the 1 
2d, Pressing the w d pa so 
e sheep to carry away as small a tity as 
pe of ~ oem solution, "3d, Allowing 
ey ree: ep to drain large area deprived 
mad shop. be scattered, as they should be, over 
an extensive surface im mediately after being dipped, 
‘the Grass which is no doubt charged 
Vadis det. if Gai be any c Bee 
si my: 
manner which the sh were siet 
Burton th at m aid * 3 ^u 
W Fu 
not only innoc ent, but cou 
= = he 
ploy that t ch they know to be poi 
HM the preeautions known oe oe i 
in dealing with poisons by any person of 
an erso: Marshall's ** Rural 
common sense. . . . "The evidence in favour of the | ^4 Caird's “ British Agriculture," 
ore A. to the in interest ele - 
el 
ared u 
m 
rther investigation must prove that] came was | selves as soon as th 
d 
3 for their ir sheep. Of all the poisons it —— Mr. Cos joncestersbite t 
aps the safest, when niei: in the shape; d 
a bath. Farmers cannot and will no with- x Jannaryt — eg cond: 
„but when they aj for idated fara 
their own neglect, or for accident after bathing, [es 
un D, | two lots of m 
brio gp 
in 19 way be d vede pati 
— sl the loss of 850 sheep by x: Wers Vanlisted Wr tae AME — 
ACK gust, and that farmers must e ^ 
ws 534 
rae d their dissatisfac 5 — 
butting each d the 
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