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sheep ate more, and therefore had more chance of contracting 
the disease. 
" On the other side of Leamington, John Garner had a severe 
outbreak which caused him to lose and to part with one of the 
finest flocks of sheep in Warwickshire. Mr. Pattison, the man 
who bought Captain Nichol's land at Ashborne, has every one 
of his affected. Coming on towards Warwick, John Robbins, of 
the Asps, had one or two cases, but quickly transferred them to 
other hands. Chadshunt, Gaydon, Kineton, and all round Strat- 
ford-on-Avon have had it severely. 
" In a circuit of about seven to ten miles round Leamington 
nearly all parts have thus been attacked. As far as my own 
experience goes, Stoneleigh and Kennilworth have been the 
most free from its ravages. 
" I have had only one case where cattle have been distinctly 
affected, and that was a calf about six months old, the property 
of Knight of Milverton." 
On the heavier lias clays between Kineton and Shipston-on- 
Stour heavy losses have been sustained on farms subject to flood. 
Second year's seeds, on which the flocks fed last autumn, are 
reported to have been the source from which the parasite was 
frequently picked up. As in other districts during the past 
eighteen months, more than half the sheep have been unsound, 
their livers abounding with flukes ; some are now met with 
having solidified indurated livers, the ducts being hard and 
almost cartilaginous. There are evidences of irritation and 
inflammation induced by flukes, which were numerous twelve 
months ago ; Imt which, having attained maturity, have since 
been got rid of. From these cold clay imperfectly drained 
districts hundreds of rotten sheep, ana?mic and dropsical, have 
frequently been sent to Warwick and Stratford markets in 
waggons. The shaking of a six or eight miles journey has 
sufficed to finish many of them, while the wasted enfeebled 
survivors have not brought more than the value of their skins. 
Mr. J. B. Lowe, Ettington, farms 750 acres, three-fifths of it 
arable ; a few acres are liable to flood. The land is heavy, 
on a clay subsoil ; 600 to 700 sheep are kept ; the ewes live on 
the grassland ; the lambs, for at least nine months after birth, 
have dry chaff with corn or cake, and sometimes a little salt. 
Rot has been practically unknown on the farm since 1830, but 
in the autumn of 1879 several cases occurred, and now nearly 
400 have been attacked. The ewes suffered most, and many 
which, by good feeding, managed in 1880 to bring up their lambs 
are manifestly unsound. Even the lambs, since weaning supplied 
with dry food, kept mainly on second year's seeds and then 
transferred to turnips, are also infested. Two years have sufficed 
