To prevent many disorders which afflict sheep it is necessary to keep them in an equal state of. flesh throughout the year, and not, as is the practice of some flock masters, at one season make the sheep half fat and at another time half starve them ; such management necessarily injuringboth their constitution and the quality of their fleeces. If proper care is taken stock owners have little reason to complain as to the healthiness of all kinds of liva stock. „ There are very few countries in which stock is as little liable to disease as in our own. It is probable, however, that the mortality among our flocks and herds will increase as the country become older and becomes more heavily stocked. But there is no doubt that this climate is peculiarly favourable to all kinds of stock. The rapidity with which a wound inflicted upon an animal will heal in this country is such as to call forth the surprise of those who have been accustomed to the management of stock in Britain. In respect to the general healthiness of stock we appear, so far, to have an advantage over the neighbouring colonies of Australia. The Australian stockowners have for some years suffered severe losses through the ravages of liver-rot or fluke The dibease is contageous, but is to be attributed entirely to the condition of the soil. It appears to be chiefly confined to districts in which the land is "of a damp, low-lying nature, and where it has not been sufficiently drained. This rot is one of the oldest known diseases, and may be found in al most every country in Europe. Youatt calculates that, in Britain alone, more than one million of sheep and lambs, die every year of rot. The same writer also states than in the year 1830 that number was more than doubled, aud that if the pesti lence had committed the aame ravages throughout the kingdom that it did in some districts, the breed of sheep would almost have been extirpated. The disease is promoted by the miasma exhaled from j vegetable matter in a state of decomposi tion. In a dry, frosty season it seldom appears, but may be expected in warm, damp weather. During the first stages of the disease the sheep rapidly gain flesh. 