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19. Has the state of the weather influenced the attacks, and, if so, 
in what manner ? 
20. Has the disease prevailed more or less every year, or have 
there been years of freedom from it ? 
21. If the disease has been on the increase of late years, to what 
cause is it attributed ? 
22. When the lambs have gone apparently healthy from per- 
manent pasture to rape, mustard, or other green crop of 
that year's produce, have they suffered from the disease ? 
23. On what evidence has reliance been chiefly placed that the 
lambs, which subsequently showed symptons of the dis- 
ease, were in a perfectly healthy condition when removed 
from permanent pasture to crops not previously fed with 
sheep ? 
24. Supposing layers are fed with sheep and allowed to stand 
over for feeding again in the following year, have the 
lambs pastured thereon been early attacked or not ? 
25. Has it been observed that lambs which are grazed during 
the summer on seeds, that had not been previously stocked 
with sheep, contract the disease ? 
26. When the lambs are unmistakably diseased, on what part of 
the farm and on what food in particular, have they been 
afterwards kept? 
27. What symptons do you deem to be characteristic of the 
disease ? 
28. How long a time usually elapses between the first indications 
of disease and death ? 
29. Does scouring — diarrhcca — exist in all cases before death? 
30. What are the percentages of deaths over recoveries, or vice 
versa ? 
31. Have you found any means by which the disease is kept in 
check or even partially prevented ? 
32. Are any calves reared on the farm, and, if so, do they suffer 
from the disease called "hoose" or "husk"? 
33. Have apparently healthy lambs, which had been reared with 
those that were diseased, been kept as stock-sheep for use 
during the following or succeeding years ? ^ ^ 
Signed, 
A Member of the Lincolnshire 
Agricultural Society, 
Date, March, 1872. 
This list should be returned to the Secretary of the Lincoln- 
shire Agricultural Society before the 2bth of March. 
