THE SHEEP DISEASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 12 November 1891, Page 3

THE SHEEP DISEASE.

A Cockatoo's Opinion.

" Cockatoo " writes to the Timaru Herald with reference to a fatality among his sheep apparently similar to that reported from Wellington and the Western district. He says : " Being short of grass, I had say, 150 crossbred ewes feeding upon turnip? and oatensheaf chaff up to lambiug time, ami about six or seven weeks ago I noticed that some of tnem became ill very suddenly, at first standing still, then lying down, then lying down with their nose upon the ground in apparently a able position with their feet under them, nose and mouth being covered with nucus or froth, and in that way one or two died in less than 12 hours, wLile two or three others died next day. I lost six in this way jin about a week. Two or three others were attacked but recovered. I opened the first four, and found buc little inflamniation in the intestines fl but coming to the liver I found it completely rotten, and the gall of an abnormal size. The lungs, etc, were also affected, but apparently sot so seriously as the liver. /This seems to be identical with the case mentioned in the Riverton Star, the details of which and also those from Wellington"are so meagre that one cannot tell whether they are the same. However, I attributed mine to a cold and being too fat, apd treated them and only isolated them when very ill. Being among them twice a day, 1 had ample opportunity of noticing them, and do not consider ~jt anew or infectious disease."