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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
LAMB DISEASE. 
List of Queries prepared bj Professor Simonds, to wliich 
an early reply is respectfully solicited by the Lamb Disease 
Commitee of the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society. 
1. How long has the Farm been in your occupation? 
2. What are the general characters of the soil and subsoil ? 
3. What is the relative proportion of Meadow to Arable 
Land? 
4. Is the Farm wet, or dry ; partially, or wholly drained ? 
5. State the system of husbandry with regard to the rotation of 
Crops. 
6. Is the Meadow Land liable to flood ? 
7. Are the Meadows mown and fed in alternate years, or mown 
yearly and the after-grass fed with sheep ? 
8. Do sheep contract rot on the Farm ? 
9. For how many years have you been familiar with the " lung- 
worm disease" on your Farm ? 
10. How many breeding Ewes are kept ? 
IL What is the general management of the Ewes, especially as 
to varieties of food supplied to them from the time they 
are put to the ram to the period of lambing ? 
12. State the system which is adopted with regard to the other 
sheep on the farm, and especially with reference to the 
lambs being sold either fat or as store stock ? 
13. What custom prevails with regard to stocking the farm with 
sheep either for breeding or feeding? 
14. At what date are the lambs dropped, and when weaned, as 
a rule ? 
15. After lambing how are the Ewes and Lambs fed and 
managed until weaning-time ? 
16. Have the lambs ever been known to be diseased if, after 
being weaned, they have been kept exclusively on per- 
manent pasture down to the end of the year ? 
17. If affected on permanent pasture, has the custom been to mow 
such pasture and feed the after-grass, or to feed through- 
out the summer ? 
18. At what period of the year have the first indications of the 
lambs being unhealthy been observed ? 
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