Report on Licer-Rot. 
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Hampshire. — On the wetter heavier l.inds in Hampshire 
thousands of sheep have been alFected. Tlie general impression 
appears to be that more were attacked, died, or were cleared ofF 
in 1879 and the subsequent winter than since. Last summer's 
census certainly shows a falling-off of 40,000 sheep throughout 
the county. Profiting by sad experience, extra care last year has 
been taken to keep the flocks off suspicious land. A few beasts 
have been affected, but apparently not nearly so many as in the 
Midland counties. Major-Gencral Sir Frederick Fitzwi/fjram, 
Bart., Leigh Park, Havant, farming 800 acres, part of it tenacious 
clay, but all well drained, lost during 1879 about 150 sheep, 
chiefly ewes, but many more were affected ; occasional sheep 
killed from time to time demonstrated that all the flock except- 
ing the lambs had flukes, and they were accordingly made the 
best of. The lambs weaned early, penned on the clovers and 
best and driest pastures, and regularly receiving a little cake 
and corn, have kept sound. Even those lambs whose mothers, 
emaciated bv rot, died at their birth, or shortly after, have shown 
no evidence of flukes. 
Mr. George Hodder, Waites Court, Brixton, IsLE OP WiGHT, 
manages for Aliss Arnold a farm of 300 acres, of which 70 are 
old pasture, 30 low-lying meadow ; the pasture and meadow 
are on stiff clay, undrained, but none of the farm is liable 
to flooding; 30 acres are in Down, 170 are dry sandy arable; 
200 Down ewes are kept, and their produce usually finished 
out. They are described as run over the various pastures, 
they are often folded at night on the arable, and in winter 
are penned on roots. A few fluked sheep occur every year ; 
about 20 were attacked in 1877, but the whole of the ewes, 
to the number of 200, were affected in 1879, and in spite 
of extra care a good many bought in suffered in 1880. In 
ordinary seasons, Mr. Hodder states, sheep get rot between 
August and November inclusive, but in such wet seasons as 
1879 they take it earlier. He entertains the somewhat peculiar 
opinion that sheep put into a rot-producing field for a few weeks 
are more apt to contract the disease than sheep grazing upon it 
continuously throughout the season. He states that in February 
1880 he had lambs six or eight weeks old whose livers were full 
of small flukes. Their mothers were rotten, and although feed- 
ing on grass, swedes, hay, and oats, gave little milk. Mr. 
Hodder furnishes the following account of his 200 ewes. 
" Fearing the wet season, I kept them on the down and a few 
healthy pieces of pasture through the summer. The weather 
being dry in October I put them on aftergrass in a meadow, 
folding it over some of the time ; they had hay, remained there 
about a fortnight ; no rain fell the while ; they improved in 
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