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DISCUSSION ON MR. THOMPSON’S PAPER. 
At the conclusion of the reading of the paper, Mr. Thomp¬ 
son described the production and development of the liver- 
fluke, which is the cause of sheep rot, by means of a series of 
drawings, prepared by Mr. W. C. Taylor, illustrating the 
insidious little animal in all its various stages of existence, 
after which the Chairman (Mr. Wm. Norman, Hall Bank) 
said they must all feel indebted to Mr. Thompson for the 
very lucid manner in which he had brought before them the 
causes, results, and probable means of eradicating these pests 
from among their flocks. Mr. Thompson had alluded to his 
(the Chairman’s) experience of using salt. He might say that 
before he went to High Close Farm they could not get 
SHEEP TO LIVE UPON IT, ALTHOUGH IT HAD BEEN FREQUENTLY 
DRESSED WITH LIME, BUT BY THE USE OF SALT HE COULD NOW 
KEEP SHEEP UPON IT TILL THEY WERE SO OLD THAT THEY HAD 
not a tooth in their heads. On his farm in Surrey he had 
lost a quantity of sheep from louping-ill, and by dressing the 
land with salt the disease had disappeared. Since he began 
he had been using about 20 tons of salt annually on that farm. 
He also believed it had been the means of removing rot in 
sheep at High Close, and redwater in cattle at Gillgooden. 
There was between ^3,000 and ^4,000 spent annually in small 
agricultural shows in Cumberland, and he would like to know 
what good they did? (Hear, hear.) The Aspatria Show 
would not have been carried on as long as it had been if it 
had not been for the exertions of Mr. Thompson, and he (the 
Chairman) was very glad that Mr. Thompson had come round 
to his way of thinking. (Laughter.) Twenty thousand acres 
