348 INTERIM REPORT ON VETERINARY INVESTIGATIONS. 
[Addendum.'} 
Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
LAMB DISEASE. 
> List of Queries 'prepared by Professor Simonds , to which 
an early reply is respectfully solicited by the Lamb Disease 
Committee of the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society. 
1. How long has the Farm been in your occupation? 
2. What are the general characters of the soil and subsoil? 
3. What is the relative proportion of Meadow to Arable 
Land ? 
4. Is the Farm wet, or dry; partially, or wholly drained? 
3. State the system of husbandry with regard to the rota¬ 
tion of Crops. 
6. Is the Meadow Land liable to flood ? 
7. Are the Meadows mown and fed in alternate years, or 
mown yearly and the after-grass fed w T ith sheep? 
8. Do sheep contract rot on the Farm? 
9. For how many years have you been familiar with the 
“ lung-worm disease” on your Farm? 
10. How many breeding Ewes are kept? 
11. What is the general management of the Ewes, especially 
as to varieties of food supplied to them, from the time 
they are put to the ram to the period of lambing ? 
12. State the system which is adopted with regard to the 
other sheep on the farm, and especially with reference 
to the lambs being sold either fat or as store stock ? 
13. What custom prevails with regard to stocking the farm 
with sheep either for breeding or feeding ? 
14. At what date are the lambs dropped, and when weaned, 
as a rule ? 
13. After lambing how are the Ewes and Lambs fed and 
managed until weaning time ? 
16. Have the lambs ever been known to be diseased if, after 
