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lieport on Liver-Rot. 
fluke for fifteen years. Mr. Smith remarked " that many of the 
Welsh mountains before they were drained were subject to rot, 
but since drained they are quite free from it. The free use of 
common salt in hay, and rock-salt in the field, has a deterrent 
effect in our case at least. Some of our neighbours who use no 
salt suffer from this disease, although their land is compara- 
tively dry. The want of dry food in winter causes much loss 
to our mountain farmers, especially in wet seasons, such as 
1879, when much of the runs are overflowed and marshy, the 
pasturage coarse and unhealthy, and little or no hay can be 
made for the flocks. The only cure I have ever seen is to get 
the sheep fat, and kill them as quickly as you can. Up to 
a certain point they fatten easily." 
Herefordshire. — Mr. J. H. Arhvright, of Hampton Court, 
Leominster, instituted extensive inquiries throughout Hereford- 
shire regarding the prevalence of rot during 1879, and the first 
half of 1880. With zealous labour he communicated with up- 
wards of eighty stock-masters. He found that the disease was 
widespread amongst both sheep and cattle ; that it has extended 
over farms which from time immemorial have been exempt 
from flukes : several of the valuable pedigree-flocks have been 
sufferers, and fatal cases have also occurred amongst several 
of the fashionably descended Hereford herds. 
Responding to Mr. Arkwright's inquiries, Messrs, Edwards 
and Weaver, the auctioneers, reported that their Hereford Market 
sales-books indicate that they first sold what were supposed to 
be rotten or fluke-livered sheep about the last week in August 
1879 ; since that time sheep have constantly been disposed of 
at prices ranging from Is. 6c?. to 27s., which should have 
realised, had they been sound, from 50s. to 63s. per head. 
Amongst others who have been great losers may be mentioned 
Mr. Charles Nott, Bury House, Wigmore, who lost or sold as 
diseased all his ewe stock horn the Bury House Farm. Mr. 
Helme, of Devereux, Wootton (late of the Broome), lost in the 
autumn of 1879 several sheep purchased of Mr. Thos. Nott, 
who, we are informed, lost in 1880 the greater portion of his 
older sheep. Mr. Helme had sheep indicating rottenness, but 
attributes his saving his flock to a very liberal use of salt with 
a very little nitre. He has lost none since his removal to 
Devereux, on the Garnstone estate. Mr. Henry Moore, of 
Fields Place, on the Garnstone estate, has lost or had to sell as 
diseased, the whole of his ewes on the Field Place Farm, but 
they have remained sound on Chadnor Farm, adjoining. 
Mr. Thomas Rogers, The Homme (a farm adjoining Mr. 
Moore's), has kept his flock sound. Mr. Bull, of the Bear Farm, 
Weobley, out of 92 ewes, sold 12 at skin price, has 20 
