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Splenic Apoplexy. 
Another of the animals was milked in the evening, and yielded a 
full supply. She was shortly afterwards attacked, and died about 
10 P.M. 
The last animal which died on the farm was a cow kept prin- 
cipally in the shed on hay. Her death took place about the middle 
of February, 1861. 
The sheds and yards are wet and dirty, and badly littered. The 
drinking-place is paved and walled with stones, and the supply of 
fresh water to it is very insufficient. It receives a considerable 
amount of the drainage of the yard. The land is liable to flood, 
lying rather lower than many fields by which it is bounded. It is, 
nevertheless, of fair average quality, and its natural herbage has 
Iseen somewhat improved by manuring, which is done at such a 
rate as to complete the whole in about every seven or eight years. 
The cattle, when grazing, have access to pure water from the 
brook previously described. 
Mr. Dykes' Farm. 
The losses here have been only two. The land adjoins Mr. 
T^'ake's and is of the same description. The two animals died 
M'ithin a fortnight of each other in the spring of 1861. They were 
barren cows, bought for grazing. 
Mr. Bradley's Farm. 
This farm is situated in the parish of Sock, and is distant about a 
anile from the others. It is also a grazing farm, consisting of 350 
acres, a small portion only of which is arable land. 
^Ir. Bradley has occupied the fai-m for twenty-nine years, and 
until the ^disease in question made its appearance has only lost 
animals now and then fi-om ordinary causes. The parish of Sock 
contains only one other farm, which is in the occupation of Mr. 
Hussey, and it is a singular circumstance that no disease of the 
kind has ever existed here. This farm is precisely of the same 
nature and quality, and the system of grazing exactly the same. 
Many of the pastures are separated from Bradley's by ordinarj- 
water-courses only, and a good many of them are so situated as to 
unite Look's and Mr. Wake's farms with Mr. Bradle3""s. 
It was in consequence of the disease having proved singularly 
-destructive on Mr. Bradley's farm, and having continued, with few 
interruptions, down to the present time — March 24th — that Sir 
"William Miles' attention was called to the subject, with a view to 
^n inquiry being instituted by the Society. 
Mr. Bradley, like Mr. Look, has found that the losses have 
occurred when the animals have gone unto two fields in particular, 
which are numbered respectively on the plan of the iaxm 30 and 3 
The malady was first observed in July, 1861, having broken out 
armong nineteen grazing animals, which were, with a milking cow, 
at pasture in the same field. They had been turned into this 
field on May 4th, and had continued there until July 3rd, going on 
