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had been in my place for six months. The disease had been 

 pretty bad a short distance from me, I could not account for it 

 in any other way except coming through the atmosphere. There 

 is not much of coming and going to the byres ; we rather avoid 

 each other in these circumstances. We always keep a strict 

 look-out against strangers coming into the byres. As soon as it 

 is known that the animal has pleuro-pneumonia, she is removed. 

 I had in my possession an inoculated cow that took pleuro- 

 pneumonia. So far as I remember, it would be four or five 

 months after inoculation. It was about six months after that 

 beast came into the place that the third outbreak occurred. 

 This case of the six months was pretty bad. She had not been 

 showing it for more than a few days. My whole stock was 

 inoculated then. Two or three did not take it. Some of these 

 cases that did not take on the inoculation were in my possession 

 at the time when I brought in my fresh stock. I have had none 

 inoculated since I was clear. What I mean by clear was the 

 time that we were allowed to buy in February, and I have not 

 had any more inoculated. I go on the principle of let well 

 alone. I have disinfected the premises to the best of my ability. 

 I am satisfied with the operation by inoculation in my own mind. 

 I would not be afraid to inoculate my other animals, if it is 

 properly done. 



William Cooper, Sunnybank Cottage, London Road, 

 Edinburgh, called in, and examined. 



I commenced business as a dairyman in 1859. I have never 

 had an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia since I began to inoculate, 

 but before that was scarcely ever free from the disease. I began 

 to inoculate in 1878. Then there was an outbreak, and I 

 had 42 cattle. We were afraid it would be serious, because we 

 suffered so much before. We got 27 of the animals inoculated. 

 We were making the others fat. We lost one cow, but we 

 blamed its death on a servant who had given it a stroke. They 

 were sold in the Edinburgh market. I did not make any in- 

 quiry about them afterwards. I bought fresh cattle. I put 

 them into the same byres with the inoculated animals. The 

 fresh ones did not take the disease. I think that animals 

 brought in from the country, and put alongside animals having 

 pleuro-pneumonia, would take the disease. I had thoroughly 

 cleaned the bjTes before I brought in the new stock. I mixed 

 the new stock with the others, and the inoculated animals did not 

 give off disease to the new animals. We had another outbreak 

 two years after that one. I sent for the veterinary surgeon, 

 and I got 37 inoculated at that time. It broke out in the 



