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DEATH OF PIGS.-BLOOD DISEASE. 
extent to materially interfere with its nutritive properties. 
The pig-yard has a north-west aspect, and lies below the 
turnpike road on the south-east side. It is bounded by the 
river on the north-west, which is also much below the yard. 
From this you will see that it lies on a slope from the south¬ 
east to north-west. On the upper or south-east end a deep 
drain is dug, much below 7 the level of the “ pigsties,” the 
surface of the latter being pitched with bricks, and well 
drained, rendering them perfectly dry and comfortable. There 
is in the yard a “ small tank” for the drainage, or rather it is 
intended as a trap for the solid matter, the surplus of which 
flow's into tw r o larger tanks forty or fifty yards aw ay from the 
trap. These two large tanks are regularly built with bricks, 
arched, and furnished with large grates , so that the gases given 
off escape through these grates are to north-west, and quite 
aw r ay from the yards, and several feet below them. Had it not 
been for these outlets from the tanks, it might have been sup¬ 
posed that the gases had escaped up the drain-pipes, and 
made their w 7 ay into the pig-yards; but this arrangement 
entirely does away with that idea. The grates are capable 
of carrying aw 7 ay many thousand cubic feet of gas. 
James Hodgson, Esq., whose yards have the same aspect, 
and are situated on the other side of turnpike road, has suf¬ 
fered in proportion. The disease manifested itself here when 
it had abated and almost disappeared from his neighbour. 
During the last fortnight Mr. Hodgson has lost and had 
destroyed about tw r enty pigs. 
I have examined four of his pigs, and in every animal, save 
one, found extensive disease of the lungs. In three of them the 
right lung w r as hepatized, and more or less of effusion had 
taken place into the cavities. Fibrinous adhesions also existed 
betw een the pleura pulmonalis and costalis. In fact, acute 
pleuro-pneumonia was present. In another case extensive 
disease of the alimentary track w r as excited, commencing in 
the stomach and terminating in the colon. This case was 
complicated wdtli mischief in the lungs, but to a less extent 
than in some others. 
The yard in w'hich the pigs are kept is on higher eleva¬ 
tion than the brewery-yard, and quite as w^eli drained and as 
clean as these places are in ordinary. Mr. Hodgson is the 
proprietor of Rotherham Mills, and has his pigs kept 
different from the others, those of the brewery, as they 
live chiefly on barley meal, coarse sharps, and mill 
sweepings; their food at all times being good and sound. 
Sometimes it is given to them raw, at others it is 
scalded. In this respect the pig-feeders have not been 
