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put all the cows in one byre. The roof was opeo at the top, and 

 we whitewashed it, and used carbolic acid. We then brought 

 in a fresh stock, but afterwards there was an outbreak. We had 

 always some of the old stock there in the byres. I think the 

 old stock carried on the disease. That old stock is a fluctuating 

 stock, coming and going. I get my fresh stock inoculated for 

 some months after an outbreak. I have sixty cattle just now. 

 The average time I keep each animal is from nine to twelve 

 months. Cows seem to thrive faster after inoculation. If it 

 was not the risk of losing the cows from the operation, I would 

 have the whole operated upon. If you have good virus, and a 

 good man in charge of the stock, and who does not knock them 

 about, the result would be satisfactory. I have seen them swell 

 up when they were inoculated. When a cow has been inoculated 

 she needs to be tenderly treated for a fortnight. I know nothing 

 from which they are liable to danger, if they are not abused in 

 any way. They must be kept warm. 



Robert Howden Runciman, 7 Montgomery Street, Leith 

 Walk, called in, and examined. 



I have been engaged in dairying for the last eight years. 

 During that time I have had three outbreaks from pleuro- 

 pneumonia. It will be about three years since I had the first 

 outbreak. I allowed them to stand as they were, and got them 

 inoculated. The first case stood for a considerable time. It 

 was a new disease to me, and the cow was allowed to stand too 

 long, and a good many of the cows got affected thereby ; but 

 as soon as I knew, I got from thirty-five to thirty-eight inocu- 

 lated. I think there were four slaughtered at that time. There 

 was one loss after the inoculation. She did not die from pleuro- 

 pneumonia. She got a stroke from a stool, and died from swell- 

 ing at the tail head, and that went into her inside. The second 

 outbreak was one cow that had been improperly inoculated. At 

 that time I got all the fresh ones — sixteen or seventeen — 

 inoculated, and that was the only case I had. The third out- 

 break was on the 24th of November. I had an animal standing 

 that had been off her meat for a day or two. It was accordingly 

 sent away, and was found to be a case of pleuro-pneumonia. 

 I got the other cattle inoculated. Mr Rutherford took the vii'us 

 from the diseased cow. There were one or two that did not take 

 it, and they were done a second time. I think I only lost two 

 through cold, and then I was clear for six weeks, when there 

 was one dropped off on Christmas day. She had been inoculated, 

 but it did not take properly. I have had no fatal cases from 

 inoculation beyond the animals I have described. This cow 



