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3. If your stock has been affected by it, when did it first make 
its appearance, and in what kind of stock did it first appear, and 
to what other kind of stock has it extended ? 
4. In what parish and county is your farm situated 1 
5. Is its general character flat or hilly 1 
6. If flat, is your farm screened I and if among hills, is it on a flat 
or an elevation 1 is the situation dry or damp, wooded or open 1 
7. What is the nature of your surface-soil and substratum, and 
are there any rivers, ponds, or marshes, in your neighbourhood ? 
8. What kind of weather was it when the Epidemic began, and 
what was the prevailing wind I 
9. Had the animals attacked with the disorder been in commu- 
nication with any other animals which might have been diseased 
at the time 1 If they had, what was the nature of that communi- 
cation 1 
10. Had the animals travelled along a public road, or been herded 
in any place where diseased animals might have been herded, or 
been attended by any person who might have been the means of 
communicating the disorder, either from having attended animals 
under disease or from any other cause 1 
11. Were the animals, when taken, housed or out of doors ; in 
what condition were they ; how had they been fed, and what was 
their age 1 
12. Did young or full-grown cattle appear to be most subject to 
the disease 1 
13. In what way did the disorder first appear, and in what time 
after the supposed infection 1 
14. Was the disease most frequent in the mouth or in the feet ; 
and when both mouth and feet were affected at the same time, in 
which did it begin first ; and in what kind of animals was the dis- 
order in the feet most prevalent ; and in what kind that of the 
mouth 1 
15. Are there any cases in your own stock, or in your imme- 
diate neighbourhood, in which an animal has been affected a second 
time 1 
16. How many such cases have occurred within your own know- 
ledge 1 
1 7. In any case in which an animal has been affected a second 
