The Bucks Standard 17th September 1898

SERIOUS AGRICULTURAL LOSS. We regret to learn the serious loss which Messrs. Whiting Brothers, the well known agriculturists of Bucks, have just experienced at their farm at Castlethorpe. We understand that a flock of sheep had been turned into a stubble field from whence the corn had been recently carried, and it is supposed that a more than usual quantity of wheat had fallen from the ears and was picked up by the sheep, with the result that 40 at least died of over-feeding.