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one accidentally injured and killed at Christmas was per- 
fectly sound ; none of them appeared to bo tainted. Forty lambs 
which were subsequently sent on to the same pasture are now 
dying rapidly, but 10 fellow-lambs which remained on the 
drier land at Harby are perfectly well. This case confirms 
the popular opinion that October is one of the most dangerous 
months for sheep on wet lands. Mr. Shipman is nursing his 
casualty survivors on barley, bran, and linseed-cake, and believes 
if they live until the fresh grass springs, that they will get rid 
of the parasites, and may pull through. Mr. Baf/uley, Harby, 
has a considerable portion of low-lying wet undrained pasture ; 
even the upland is insufficiently dry ; he has lost 46 ewes and 
40 hoggs. The ewes kept longest on the worst land went first ; 
some of the lambs, sent early to dry arable land in Notting- 
hamshire, have been saved. From a good dry situation 50 stores 
were bought last April ; by October it was evident that they 
were going wrong, and they were at once wisely sold. Thomas 
Lamin, Harby, has drained his land, but not as effectually as 
it should be for the recent wet seasons. Flooding occasionally 
occurs, and the pastures as well as the arable are apt to get puddled. 
He generally has 50 ewes, of which seven died in 1879 ; but 
now, February 1881, most are pining and appear likely to go. 
Like many others, as recently as the middle of January, he 
Avould confidently have warranted his flock sound. His 30 
beasts are not doing satisfactorily, and he has no doubt that 
every one has flukes. Rohert Bark, Harby, during two years 
has lost 80 sheep, and has not heart or money with which to 
replace them. What is to be done next May-day with these, 
as with many others of the less desirable wet fluke-infested 
Leicestershire pastures ? 
John Bloore, Langer Lodge, has a tract of flat poor soil on 
the lias clay, part of it is being drained now for the first time ; 
some of it seriously subject to floods, now lies covered with silt ; 
rushes and coarse grass monopolise the pasture ; the clover seeds 
and other portions of arable are decidedly swampy. The circum- 
stances of this farm are as promising as can be for the develop- 
ment of flukes. In the summer of 1879 Bloore had 60 ewes 
and 30 hoggs kept much alike ; in September they began to 
fall away ; in October they were dying latterly at the rate of 
four or five a day. Many were fairly well one week, and dead 
the next ; a few were nursed over the winter, but did little 
good ; a loss of 250/. has been sustained on the sheep ; the 
yearling cattle moreover are doing very badly, and although 
getting malt combs and linseed-cake, several will die. Mr. 
Goodwin, Langer, put 102 ewes to the ram in September ; now 
all are dead or sold as casualties. The hoggs, which seldom in 
