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met him at the cart-shed. He said, “ It’s an awful job, shepherd.” 
He asked if they had been long in the dip. I said I would give him 
the numbers we had done in the day, and he could judge whether they 
were long in the dip or not. I also offered to show him the things we 
used at the dip. He said it was of no use; the bath had spoken too 
truly for itself. In the Craw Lea a man wanted to buy the carcases. 
Mr. Elliott said he would sell the carcases, and asked what he would 
give. I lent the man a knife, and he opened a sheep. He asked for 
time to go to the railway station, and he would give an answer. The car¬ 
cases were not sold, and Mr. Elliott directed them to be buried. 
Frank Ormston, the skinner, came and bought the skins for 2$. apiece. 
One of the drainers got a bad arm; my finger and thumb were after¬ 
wards black, with a little discharge. Consulted Mr. Broadbent, sur¬ 
geon. I was sick, and not right for several days. The under shep¬ 
herd’s hands were also affected, so were others. I do not know what 
became of the remainder of the mixture after the last dipping. I do 
not know whether it was thrown over the fields. 
Robert Tate —I was under shepherd at Mr. Brown’s sheep-dipping 
last year. Robert Tate has given a correct account of the way in 
which the dipping was done. My finger and thumb and head and 
chest were sore. 
Cross-examined—My thumb had no scratch on it before. The 
donkey pastured close to where the dipping took place. 
Ann Strachan corroborated the evidence of the shepherd. 
Wm. Bird —Am a veterinary surgeon at Belford. On the 14th 
August I happened to be at Mr. Brown’s, from 11 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing till 4 in the afternoon. Saw the sheep-dipping. I had never seen 
two sets of drainers. I looked on at them dipping the sheep for about 
two hours. I noticed the packages used by the shepherd ; they were 
not all the same size. I went to Burton on the following Tuesday, and 
five or six score of dead sheep were shown to me in the cart-shed. I 
saw some die. Those that had the disease had a frothy mucus about 
the brow, nose, and mouth, the eye was very dull, an evident pain in 
the bowels, the breathing was most laborious, the head was swollen 
and thrown back. The urinary discharge was black and bloody. The 
skin was of a black and blue appearance, and the wool falling off in 
large patches, particularly on the back and across the loins. All the 
symptoms I have described are consistent with poisoning by mineral 
poisons. Opened twelve of the carcases. Did not find the stomach 
inflamed, but the small intestines were. The liver was black, soft, and 
easily broke up. The spleen was congested. The bladder was empty. 
The lungs, in all cases hut one, were inflamed. The application of 
soda and soft soap to the skin would render it more capable of absorp¬ 
tion. I used no means to stop the disease. I found sheep apparently 
well, ruminating and eating, and dead in twenty minutes afterwards. 
About three or four days afterwards 1 saw the donkey. He appeared 
to have the same appearance with regard to swelling and blueness on 
the flanks. There was a wound on the back. On the 23d August I 
was called in to look to a two-year-old steer; it was dead; the imme¬ 
diate cause of death was inflammation of the bowels, assisted by chronic 
disease in the lungs. The symptoms were not the same as the sheep. 
On the 31st August I was called in to see a dead horse and another 
steer. Neither of these had the symptoms of the sheep. I afterwards 
saw other animals, none of which had died of the same symptoms as 
the sheep. Had l not known the previous history of the sheep, I would 
not have known what to think of the results. I have seen a case of 
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