34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
Chaire d’ Hygiene. 
The Flock of English Sheep. —The English sheep, ahd 
the flocks crossed by them, have given us little matter for ob¬ 
servation in the clinical course. Many cases of intense ophthal¬ 
mia, and which have been, in a manner, epiozotic in England, 
have been less difficult to treat in our climate, and have been 
promptly cured by means of astringent washes. Many acci¬ 
dents, and especially the lamenesses occasioned by the voyage 
and journey, have yielded to proper treatment. The only ani¬ 
mals that have been lost, died of grangrenous swelling of the 
udder, and redwater, unfortunately so common in our district, as 
well as in many other localities. The health of the flock has 
been generally good, notwithstanding the change of food and 
management to which they have been submitted. The lambing 
has been fortunate ; many of the ewes had twins, and most of 
the lambs have been reared. During; the ten months that it 
has been in France, the flock has doubled its number. This 
increase has enabled us, in the present year, to sell and to let 
some rams ; and, most of them being in the neighbourhood of 
the school, we shall be enabled to observe the effect of this 
foreign cross. In the next year we hope to be able to sell a 
greater number of older sheep, to form a cross with our native 
ewes, and to verify, by multiplied experiments, the trials which 
we have already made at Alfort on a small scale, and tending 
to this point, whether our climate affords any obstacle to our 
obtaining in France the long, strong, and shining wool, which 
the English are permitted to send to us. 
In the course of the last year, Mr. Yvart has been consulted 
on many points relative to the rearing and management of do¬ 
mestic animals, and especially on the value of buck-wheat as a 
food for sheep, and to remedy the want of forage which, ac¬ 
cording to him, has followed the unfortunate attempt to intro¬ 
duce the Norman stallions of Cottentin and the plain of Caen 
into the departments of Pas-de-Calais and the Boulonnois. 
Mr. Yvart has delivered to the Royal and Central Society of 
Agriculture, a report on the levers {leviers) which Granger has 
proposed to apply to the fore-wheels of carriages; and he has 
described the circumstances under which the discovery may be 
rendered most useful. 
Having been appointed one of the committee to examine into 
the advantage of substituting bread for oats, as the food of 
troop horses, he has made this the subject of a memoir which he 
has published. 
Ktcueily Sept. 1834. 
