IN CATTLE. 
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The fish in the pond through which the brook ran died about 
the same time, viz. 1828. They were perch, gudgeon, pike, 
roach, and dace. The frogs, and even the weeds, died in the 
water-course. Now that the water from the starch mill is turned 
away, the fish, and frogs and weeds have returned to the brook. 
The symptoms of illness were these : — The cow began to look 
thin, and that for three or four months ; her coat was rough ; 
her milk went almost from the first. She then began to purge; 
blood mingled with the faeces, and at length she died emaciated 
and exhausted. All the cows had similar symptoms, and the 
illness usually lasted from six to eight months. In the last two 
that died the illness was of longer duration. The last two were 
opened ; one by Mr. Grieves, a surgeon, and the other by Mr. 
Grieves and Mr. Pyatt, a veterinary surgeon. 
The cows occupied these pastures, except in eddish time, 
which was about five or six weeks. The cows gave more milk 
and looked better in eddish time than when on these pastures. 
The diminution of milk since the erection of the starch mills 
was at least two or three quarts daily from all of them, whether 
sick or well. The value at 2d. per quart amounted to £650. 
There is a trough in the milking yard. When the cows were 
brought up to be milked they shewed a marked impatience to 
get at the water, much more so than before. Others of the cows 
looked very ill, but did not die. Since the water from the mill 
no longer comes to them, they give more milk and look better. 
The water smelled badly before 1828, and so on until the sough 
was made. 
She then produced some bottles of water taken that morning : 
one bottle from the brook, good ; one from the sough now made 
to carry away the water coming from the starch mills, and one 
from the pond above. They were so highly offensive that they 
were ordered out of court as quickly as possible. 
Cross-examined. — Mr. Hall keeps a great many pigs about 
100 yards from the commencement of the new drain, and that 
drain carries all the filth from the pigs. Always has kept an 
almanac, containing the list of casualties and deaths. They 
had comparatively little illness or death before the erection of the 
manufactory, and the illness which they had was not at all like 
this. She recollects particularly one heifer that died. None of 
them died of calving. The one that died in the last spring 
aborted, and died soon afterwards ; but she had been ill long 
before. 
Kept many ducks and geese ; and the horses drank of the 
same water as the cows. 
