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of land could be dressed with a proper quantity of salt with 
what these shows cost, or they could bear the expenses of a 
tenant farmer’s candidate for a county constituency with the 
amount. (Cheers.) 
Mr. Twentyman (Blennerhasset) said there was no doubt 
disease in sheep was a very serious matter. During the past 
summer he made a visit to the South of England, and while 
there met with a farmer who had lost nearly the whole of his 
flock for three years in succession from this disease. From 
what he had seen he was very m\ich in favour of salt as a 
remedy, as advocated in Mr. Thompson’s paper. On the 
High Close Farm, already referred to, which had been 
thoroughly limed, he had seen the sheep in a very bad state 
indeed ; and on the farms he had occupied, when salt was 
laid down, he had seen the sheep go to it, and lick it on their 
own account, as if instinct had led them to know what would 
be beneficial to them in their affected condition. 
Mr. G. T. Carr (Silloth) thought there was a good deal in 
what Mr. Thompson had been saying, and no doubt he had 
indicated the cause of the disease in a great measure, but he 
(Mr. Carr) could not think that the want of salt was altogether 
the cause of rot. He had often seen sheep that were put on 
the marshes—which were frequentfy submerged in salt water 
—suffer severely from rot. With reference to the salt remedy, 
he thought the “little enemy” in its first stages might be tried 
in salt and water, to see if that would terminate its existence. 
He believed hunger had much to do with causing it. With 
reference to the gathering of the supposed intermediate agents 
from the grass—which Mr. Thompson had alluded to, as 
recommended by some authorities, in describing the diagrams 
—when it was in its mature outward state, he thought that 
