The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

It griculture.

DISEASES AMONG SHEEP AND CATI'LE.

A Gazette extraordinary of Wednesday night contains
an order in Council on the nulled of contagions or
infections dimrders among sheep and cattle. A.fter
reciting the provisions of an Act passed in the alth ant
12th years of her Al4jesty's reign, to prevent 'the
lipreading of ciontagions diseases among sheep sod.
cattle, the Lords of the Privy Council, in pursuance of
the orders vested in them by the said Act, make and
ordain the following regulations:
"1. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove
any sheep or lambs to or from any or either of the
parishes and tythings following, all lying and being in
the county of Wilts, and near to the town of Devises,
that is to say, the parishes or tythings of llorton,
Bishop'e Canninga, Allcannings, Etchilhampton, and
Allington ; or to drive or conduct any sheep or lambs
through or by such parishes or tythings, or any or
either of them, unless the rerson so removing, -driving,
or conducting studi sheep or lambs shall lint have
obtained *certificate, in writing, signed bysetne person
who may have been authorised by two or more justices
of the said county of Wilts to seise sheep or lambs
infected with or labouring under the said disorders,
under the first section of the said Act, that such
removal, driving, or conducting may take place without
danger of spreading the said disease.
"2. All sheep and lambs dying in any of the stages
of the said disease, wheresoever such death or deaths
shall or may occur, shell ferthwith be buried by the
person or persons in whose possession such sheep or
lambs luny be at the time of death, with their skins
on, in pits of not less than five feet in depth, and
the carcases in buried shall be covered with quicklime.
"3. All sheds and places whatsoever, and all railway
trucks and other vehicles which may or shall have been
need or occupied by sheep or lambs affected by the said
disease, shall forthwith, after having beenlso used, be
thoroughly cleansed with water, and immediately
afterwards purified with chloride of lime, by the
person or persons in possession of such sheds, plates,
trucks, and vehicles respectively.
"4. Every person in possession of any sheep or lambs
in or amongst which the said disease shall manifest
itself, shall forthwith give notice, in writing, of the fact
tothe chief constable or superintendent of police of
the county or borough in which such sheep or lambs
maybe.
5. And it is further ordered that this order shall
continue in force for three calendar months from and
after the date hereof."

Naw OATS AS FOOD FOR HORSES. —" From time
immemorial," says the Scala Public of Lyons, "it has
I been generally admitted that new oats are dangerous to
horses, and for that reason they are not given for food
until two months in store. This would be of no great
importance if the previous year's oats were abo to be
had In sufficient quantity, but when scares there is fre-
quently a difficulty in finding food for horses: Experi-
ments just made by order of the Minister of War have
proved that new oats are not more dangerous to
animals than new hey; both are on the cortrary
sweeter, and more stimulant. It Is for this latter reason
alone, and to avoid indigestions and irritations, that It
is thought advisable to mix the new corn with a mode-
rate quantity of old."