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the supply of fresh water to it is very insufficient. It receives 
a considerable amount of the drainage of the yard. The 
land is liable to flood, lying rather lower than many fields 
by which it is bounded. It is, nevertheless, of fair average 
quality, and its natural herbage has been somewhat improved 
by manuring, which is done at such a rate as to complete 
the whole in about every seven or eight years. 
The cattle, when grazing, have access to pure water from 
the brook previously described. 
Mr. Dykes 5 Farm. 
The losses here have been only two. The land adjoins 
Mr. Wake’s and is of the same description. The two ani¬ 
mals died within a fortnight of each other in the spring of 
186l. They were barren cows, bought for grazing. 
Mr. Bradley’s Farm. 
This farm is situated in the parish of Sock, and is distant 
about a mile from the others. It is also a grazing farm, con¬ 
sisting of 350 acres, a small portion only of which is arable land. 
Mr. Bradley has occupied the farm for twenty-nine years, 
and until the disease in question made its appearance has 
only lost animals now and then from ordinary causes. 
The parish of Sock contains only one other farm, which is in 
the occupation of Mr. Hussey, and it is a singular circumstance 
that no disease of the kind has ever existed here. This farm 
is precisely of the same nature and quality, and the system 
of grazing exactly the same. Many of the pastures are 
separated from Bradley’s by ordinary water-courses only, 
and a good many of them are so situated as to unite Mr. 
Look’s and Mr. Wake’s farms with Mr. Bradley’s. 
It was in consequence of the disease having proved singu¬ 
larly destructive on Mr. Bradley’s farm, and having con¬ 
tinued, with few interruptions, down to the present time— 
March 24th—that Sir William Miles’ attention was called to 
the subject, with a view to an inquiry being instituted by the 
society. 
Mr. Bradley, like Mr. Look, has found that the losses have 
occurred when the animals have gone unto two fields in par¬ 
ticular, which are numbered respectively on the plan of the 
farm 30 and 37. 
The maladv was first observed in Julv, 1861, having 
broken out among nineteen grazing animals, which were, with 
a milking cow, at pasture in the same field. They had been 
turned into this field on May 4th, and had continued there 
until July 3rd,going on quite satisfactorily, In consequence of 
