THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XIV, No. 162 .] JUNE 1841. [New Series, No. 102. 
THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE, &c. 
[The following Reply to the Queries of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England was sent to the Chairman of that Society, 
by Mr. Read, F.S., of Crediton . With his consent a copy 
of it is here inserted. The Queries are to be found at p. I(i9 
of the present volume. — Y.] 
To Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P. 
Sir, — With pleasure I have endeavoured to reply to the queries 
for information to the best of my knowledge and judgment, in 
conformity with the circular received through your Secretary 
on the nature of the now existing epizootic amongst different 
kinds of stock. 
1st. Yes. 
2d. It has prevailed on a small farm of my own, distant two 
miles and a half from Crediton, the town in which I reside. 
3d. It broke out on the 2d of January 1841, attacking five 
milch cows, extending to the sheep and swine. 
4th. The farm is situate in Sandford, in the county of Devon. 
5th. It partakes of both. 
6th. Nearly the whole of the arable land is elevated, and, from 
the fields not being large, it is well screened by hedges thickly 
wooded ; it is moderately dry ; the pasture land is rather flat, 
with a tributary stream flowing through the marshes. 
7th. The surface soil is what is commonly called land of a dun 
colour ; the substratum chiefly clay. 
8th. North-east and easterly winds, with frost, and, occasion- 
ally, sleet and snow. 
9th. They had not. 
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