SPLENIC APOPLEXY. 
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Mr. Wake’s Farm. 
This farm consists of 127 acres, all in one piece of pasture, 
being merely divided by some iron hurdles into four, or occa¬ 
sionally three parts, for the sake of convenience. It is con¬ 
tiguous to Mr. Look’s, and only separated from field No. 2 
bv a narrow brook. 
It is used as a dairy farm, and was in the occupation of 
Mr. Wake’s father previously to Mr. Wake junior coming into 
possession at Lady-day, 1861. Mr. Wake’s father kept, on 
an average, fifty-two head of cattle, including heifers and 
bulls. No disease existed among any of the animals before 
May, 1859, when the malady in question suddenly showed 
itself. Between May 11th and October 6th of this year 
seventeen died, one of the number being a bull. Some of 
the cows were in calf, others were milking, and a few of 
them grazing animals. 
Immediately after these losses more cows were bought, so 
as to bring up the number to 50,and no deaths, occurred either 
among these or the old stock of the farm throughout the winter. 
Besides the seventeen animals which died in 1859 three 
others were attacked, but in a milder form, and these 
recovered. 
In the spring of i860 six dairy cows and one bull were 
lost, after which the disease disappeared until February of 
the present year. The bull had been on the farm about 
two months, and was between two and three years of age. 
As previously stated, Mr. Wake junior, came into possession 
of the farm at Lady-day, 1861, and when he entered 
he brought with him from his previous occupation at 
Brougham, fourteen miles distant, thirty cows and heifers, 
of vaiiousages. He also purchased twenty of the old stock 
belonging to his father. During the year eight of the cows 
brought from Brougham died, and two bulls which he had 
purchased soon after Lady-day, but one only of the old stock. 
Two of the eight cows died in April, while feeding chiefly 
upon hay in the yard, going unto the pasture for a few hours 
only every day. 
Another of the animals was milked in the evening, and 
yielded a full supply. She was shortly afterwards attacked, 
and died about 10 p.m. 
The last animal which died on the farm was a cow kept 
principally in the shed on hay. Her death took place about 
the middle of February, 186l. 
The sheds and yards are wet and dirty, and badly littered. 
The drinking-place is paved and walled with stones, and 
