THE PREVAILING DISEASES AMONG CATTLE. 
401 
ON HEAVY LAND OCCUPATIONS. 
No. 10 continued. 
s. d. 
No. 9. 
s. d. 
Brought forward... 
, 21 104 
5 bushels of oats 
16 101 
6 cwt. of hay 
21 0 
2 ditto of beans 
10 0 
8 bushels of bran 
6 8 
5 cwt. of hay 
17 6 
Cutting, &c 
2 6 
8 bushels of bran '. — 
6 8 
Cutting 
2 6 
Allowance for five horses 52 0 
Allowance for five horses 
. 53 64 
Per horse 
. 10 4f 
No. 11. 
Per horse 
10 84 
2 bushels of oats 
. 6 6 
No. 10. 
1 cwt. of hay 
3 6 
5 bushels of oats 
16 10^ 
1 comb of cut hay 
. o 104 
1 ditto of beans 
5 0 
Per horse . 
. 10 104 
21 lOf 
12. I mow for them in the summer, feeding them in the stables 
and yard with green meat. In November, feed them on Swedish 
turnips, giving each horse six stones or one bushel and a half 
daily. About eight acres will carry my horses (sixteen) through 
the winter months (about thirty-eight weeks), until the end of May. 
Upon this, with half a bushel of corn per week each horse, they 
will do well, and consume but a small quantity of hay. 
Bacons Agriculture of Norfolk. 
THE PREVAILING DISEASES AMONG CATTLE. 
At a recent meeting of the Norton Farmers’ Club, Mr. Stevenson, 
V.S., of Handsworth, introduced an interesting account of the pre- 
vailing diseases among cattle. Previous to reading his paper on 
that fatal disease among cattle, “ Pleuro-pneumonia,” or inflamma- 
tion of the lungs, he apologized for not being prepared to read it at 
a former meeting, and stated, that as this was the first paper that 
he had ever presented to any society, he was afraid he would have 
to draw largely upon both the candour and patience of his friends 
who were present. 
Gentlemen, (he said), in bringing this contagious disease before 
you, I would first observe, that, from the records of our early 
writers, this disease infested different parts of the country in the year 
1732, and was still more fatal on the continent. In London, where 
it first appeared in this country, it was most prevalent and fatal 
among horses. In 1734 it was still more contagious, accom- 
panied with vesicular eruptions over the body ; and in 1750 it 
again appeared as a dangerous and general epidemic among cattle. 
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