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known. Mr. Norman, of Hall Bank, on his farm in Surrey, 
had numerous fatal cases amongst his sheep from a malady 
allied to louping-ill , stomach staggers or evgot ; by dressing the 
land with salt the disease has disappeared. 
Millom Parks have for a long period been known for red- 
water and dysentery in cattle and stomach staggers in sheep. 
The new tenant, Mr. Harker, of Salt House, Millom, in 1880 
had 20 cows in redwater and lost 9—and also had nearly 100 
fatal cases of stomach staggers, as he names it, in. sheep—at 
the back-end of the year he came over and consulted me as to 
the advisability of applying salt, and on my recommendation 
he bought 120 tons of rough crushed rock-salt and dressed the 
parks at the rate of 8 cwt. per acre. He now writes to me 
saying, that he has only lost 2 cows in redwater in the month 
of May and 2 sheep, and is thoroughly convinced that the salt 
has done an enormous amount of good—the fatal cases being 
attributed to the old rough grass upon which the salt had not 
had time to act, as it was into March before they finished 
dressing the land. 
LOUPING-ILL. 
The malady from which Mr. Norman’s and Mr. Harker’s 
sheep suffered, although named stomach staggers and ergot , was 
nothing more or less than the disease called louping-ill , which 
is so very destructive in Scotland, and has received almost as 
much attention as rot. It generally commences with a trem¬ 
bling staggering gait, falling down in convulsions, followed by 
paralysis and death; and, in my opinion, is due to the want 
of certain essential matters in the blood. In order to have 
healthy functions of the body the blood must be properly 
supplied with elements necessary to act upon the nerve centres , 
so that the nerve fibres may keep the organs of the system 
