THK LATE EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF CATTLE, &C. 389 
day. None of them have been in the slightest way affected 
but the first, and that only seemed to be affected by its mouth 
being sore, which hindered it from eating freely for a few 
days. On the 10th of January, one of a lot of sixteen heifers 
in an open fold, that had had no communication with the 
above-mentioned nor any other diseased cattle or stock whatever, 
exhibited the disease in both its tongue and feet, and the number 
of stock mentioned in my answer to your queries were affected in 
the course of the week. We immediately gave to each the drench 
above mentioned, and repeated it on the third day, giving them a 
plentiful supply of linseed gruel, with a little wheat flour in it, and 
they all recovered in a few days that had it. There are some 
cattle in the yards which have not been affected at all ; but we 
gave the drench to all of them, and where the feet were affected 
we touched the diseased parts of the hoof with butyr of antimony. 
Up to the 1st of January my sheep had never the slightest ap- 
pearance of the epidemic ; they were, in fact, particularly healthy, 
and free from lameness. I lost four hoggets in December ; at 
least had them to kill from being affected by giddiness, but I had 
congratulated myself with having escaped hitherto so well. The 
weather in the latter end of Dec. 1840 was very changeable. 
January 1, 1841, I had 350 hoggets and 100 shearlings eat- 
ing cut hybrid and Swede turnips in the field I before mentioned, 
and 300 breeding ewes feeding on the scraps after them. On the 
evening of the 1st of January we removed the ewes to some white 
turnips in a field about a mile off : they were then very well, 
and had no symptoms of lameness. 
In the afternoon of January 2d, my shepherd found a few of 
the hoggets and shearlings lame. I examined them next morn- 
ing, and found decided symptoms of the disease having attacked 
them, and in the course of January 4th I found several of my 
ewes likewise affected. I gave each of the shearlings three ounces 
of salts, and each of the hoggets two and a quarter ounces. I 
also bled them in the toe-veins, and touched the diseased parts 
of the foot with butyr of antimony. I always repeated the salts on 
the second day, and dressed the feet every day where required. 
The disease seemed to linger about a few of them for some days, 
but has disappeared, except only a little tenderness of the feet 
when the ground is hard. 
I removed my ewes on the 7th of January, 1841, into a fold 
bedded with straw, having sheds on three sides of it, giving 
them turnips and hay, and dressing their feet with butyr of an- 
timony, but giving them no medicine, on account of their being 
heavy with lamb. In the course of a fortnight they were all re- 
covered, and put back into the field. The shelter appeared to 
