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Mr. Carr said he was not prepared to go into the whole 
facts of the matter, but he believed he was correctly informed 
that sheep had died from rot on the marshes. 
Mr. Thompson : What kind of rot ? and what kind of 
marshes ? Not salt marshes, I’m sure. 
Mr. Carr: The kind of rot described with flukes on the liver. 
Mr. Thompson said it had been proved that they were fresh 
water creatures, as they would not live where salt was. With 
reference to short grass producing the disease, as stated by 
Mr. Brockbank and other authorities as well, he begged to 
differ, as we invariably find small damp swampy places on all 
kinds of grazing lands, with lank vegetable and fungoid 
growths, which are the nursery beds of insect life ; and the 
sheep, as if by instinct, avoid these places as much as pos¬ 
sible, and crop the other portions of the pastures quite 
bare, but from short allowance were occasionally driven to 
eat the rough, coarse grass, and thus contracted the disease. 
This view was further supported by the fact, that sheep live 
and do well on the short herbage on the banks adjoining the 
sea. 
Mr. Brockbank said that on Salkeld Close he had 200 
rotted lambs, but the old sheep did not take the infection. 
That was a very dry place, and in a measure confuted the 
opinion that if the land was dry the flukes could not live. 
The Chairman : There are several wet places on Salkeld 
Close, but the lambs might have contracted the disease before 
going there. 
Mr. Twentyman, in reference to what Mr. Carr had said 
about the marshes, stated that when he went to live at Edder- 
