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I’ACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
able attempts to do something. It is vain to reason with an 
incorrigible nature; witness what lie says in reference to 
Professor Dick’s remarks on Dr. Thomson’s chemical report, 
—that it proves the absence of any poisonous material/’ 
whilst I say ” (so writes Mr. Gamgee) the report proves 
nothing at all.” Ex his disco omnes. Whatever difference of 
opinion may arise regarding Professor Dick’s view as to the 
cause of the outbreak, his advice cannot be too rigidly 
enforced, that at the commencement of the hunting season 
foxhounds should not be put at once to long-continued hard 
work, or not be overfed when first hunted with flesh, to which 
they had not been accustomed during the non-hunting season, 
—I am, sirs, &c.. 
To the Editors of the ‘ Vetermarian! 
Facts and Observations. 
The Rot in Sheep. —We learn from the agricultural 
' papers of Scotland, and the North of England in particular, 
that the rot prevails to a great extent among the sheep, and 
that very serious losses are taking place week by week there¬ 
from. The malady is said to be existing on farms which 
have hitherto been exempt from it. 
Our own experience testifies to the fact that large numbers 
of Cheviot ewes, which have travelled southward to be dis¬ 
posed of for breeding purposes, are the subjects of the malady ; 
and that several farmers in the grass-land districts of the 
Metropolis have in consequence thereof sustained very heavy 
losses. The disease is also reported as being very rife in some 
parts of Devonshire. 
Convictions under the Order in Council regu¬ 
lating THE REMOVAL OF SlIEEP TO OR FROM PARISHES 
in WHICH Variola Ovina exists. —Mr. Jas. Langford, 
farmer, of Hungerford, was recently summoned before the 
Marlborough county magistrates for having removed certain 
sheep to Aldbourne, without a certificate from the inspector. 
This was the first summons that had been taken out since 
the Order in Council was issued. 
The facts were not disputed by j\Ir. Langford, who, how¬ 
ever, urged in defence that all that had been done luul been 
in ignorance. Had the certificate been obtained of Mr. Duck, 
