Consumption of Food hy Large and Small Animals. 489 



shire or West Down sheep, notwithstanding their plain appear- 

 ance, by saying that this plain breed comes to a greater weight, 

 and therefore makes a greater money return, than the Sussex or 

 true South Down. The breeders of South Downs reply that, if 

 their sheep are smaller, more of them can be kept on the same 

 farm. Here then the abstract question has a practical bearing. 

 Last winter I saw a little Devon beast by the side of a large 

 Hereford preparing for the show of the Smithfield Club, and 

 Mr. Trinder's feeder informed me that the small one ate about as 

 much as his more bulky neighbour. In this second instance there 

 Avas a very decided difference between Mr. Shackel's two lots, yet 

 the larger lambs were satisfied throughout with an equal allowance 

 of each kind of food ; and, though of the same Ijreed, made a 

 better return by 4^. a-head than the smaller sheep. This plain 

 fact seems to warrant me in calling the attention of practical men 

 to this point of farming. 



Ph. Pusey. 



XX n. — The Sheep - Pox ; its Causes, Spnptoms, Prevention, and 

 Cure : in a Letter to the President and Council of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England. By J. Stanley Carr, 

 Esq., Honorary Member of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England, and several Continental Agricultural Societies. 



To the President and Council of the Royal Agricultural Society 



of England, 



My Lords and Gentlemen,- — Having learned with much 

 regret, not only through the English newspapers, but private 

 channels, that the Sheep-pox, with whose ravages in this country 

 I am well acquainted, had unhappily been conveyed to Britain 

 by some recent importations of sheep from Hamburg, I hastened 

 to contribute my mite towards checking the progress of so great 

 an evil by sending, by last post, a letter to the Mark Lane 

 Express, briefly stating the course adopted in these countries 

 when the malady appears in a neighbourhood ; and promising 

 to give further directions on the subject, in the shape of a 

 pamphlet. This pledge I had intended to redeem by a treatise 

 of some length, but reflection on the urgency of the case, and the 

 sad probability, that, while scientific men are experimenting, 

 whole flocks will be lost, has induced me to bring the substance 

 of such inform.ation as I have to ofl'er, at once before the public ; 

 and by throwing it into the form of a letter to you. Gentlemen, 

 secure the attention of the farmers of England, feeling assured 

 that the motive will excuse me in your eyes for thus addressing 

 you through the medium of the Press. 



