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QUERIES RESPECTING CATTLE, &C. 
, J 
3, Nassau Street, Middlesex. Hospital. 
Dear Sir, 
The Committee of the Society for Diffusion of Useful Know¬ 
ledge, are desirous of obtaining information upon the follow ing 
points. 
Cattle. 
1. What is the prevalent breed in your neighbourhood? 
2. What attempts have been made at improving and crossing; 
and the success of those attempts ? 
3. What is their comparative value as milkers, or for the 
butcher ? 
4. How far are they used in husbandry labour? 
5. To what diseases are they generally subject, particularly 
whether to red water, blain, blood, hoose, diarrhoea, dropping 
after calving? What is the supposed cause of each, and what 
its treatment? 
Sheep. 
1. What is the general breed ? 
2. What crosses have been made ? 
3. What is their value, whether as it regards their flesh or 
wool. 
4. To what diseases are they liable, particularly rot, here most 
especially; sturdy or hydatids—kind of sheep most liable- 
origin of the disease—foot rot, and whether infectious-—scab? 
Swine. 
1. What the general breed? 
2. In what are they valuable? 
3. What are the diseases to which they are subject, and what 
the treatment adopted? 
The Committee will feel obliged by your forwarding to me 
answers to these enquiries. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your very obedient servant, 
W. You ATT. 
REPLIES TO QUERIES. 
By Mr. George Farrow, Ash , near Durham. 
The breed of cattle principally reared in the county of Dur¬ 
ham, or in the neighbourhood in which I reside, are the short¬ 
horned, and generally receive the name of the Durham breed. 
