Report on Liver-Rot. 
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Au2;ust I observed my sheep, which were running rather thick, 
uneasy, and eating any earth they could get at. My shepherd 
and myself considered that they suffered from acidity ; rock-salt 
was immediately invested in, and artificial food given. The 
almost total failure of the turnip-crop in 1879 also told in this 
locality against sheep ; both ewes and tegs were accordingly 
kept much later than usual on the pastures. I hold that no 
sheep need die of rot even on a rotten farm, if helped with a 
little dry food. Half the rot of last year was caused by poverty. 
On my dry sound land I keep 700 sheep, and have hitherto 
lost none." 
Monmouthshire. — Mr. R. Stratton, The Duffryn, Newport, 
Mon., in May 1880, writing to the Secretary, described the mor- 
tality and loss in his district as having been very great among sheep 
and young cattle, and stated that he had heard of a few cases of 
horses dying from the disease. " It would be difficult to name a 
farmer who has not suffered more or less. I have lost considerably 
in sheep, and have cattle more or less affected. Any number of 
farmers would be happy to give their experience on the subject, 
but I think no satisfactory inquiry can be held simply by letter. 
Some one or two of the Committee should mal<e inquiry on the 
spot, when I would get some of the leading victims to give 
evidence. One of the peculiarities of this outbreak is that it 
has occurred on lands which have hitherto been considered safe, 
and it is most difficult to determine ivhere the disease was con- 
tracted. I believe mine was done on second clover, which was 
full of grey snails when we were feeding it. Another peculiarity 
is that, although the sheep have been together all the season, 
some are perfectly rotten, while others are perfectly sound. 
The proportion of sound and diseased varies in a remarkable 
manner : in one case 5 per cent, only are rotten, in another 75 
per cent." 
Glamorganshire. — ■Colonel F. Pidon Turhervill, of Ewenny 
Priory, Bridgend, in the summer of 1880 sent circulars to many 
farmers thi'oughout the county of Glamorgan inquiring the 
extent of their losses from liver-rot amongst sheep and cattle. 
Thirty farmers responded. Their aggregate losses of sheep 
approached 2800 : their losses of cattle were 110. Where the 
flocks were replaced the disasters during the subsequent autumn 
and winter have nearly doubled ; many more cattle have been 
lost. From the six divisional Veterinary Inspectors reports 
were also obtained. The infected area includes the whole of the 
southern parts of the county bordering on the Bristol Channel, 
extending from Cardiff to Ogmore River, comprising the ele- 
vated plateau reaching from the coast, and varying from fifteen 
to thirty miles inland to the mountains, where, especially in the 
