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fifty-six days to elapse before putting them amongst the others. 

 None of them took disease. I began to put animals into the 

 large byre after having been inoculated, as they might be 

 required. None of them took disease. I have not had another 

 outbreak on my premises. I have generally about tAventy other 

 cattle. They get the straw from the same barn, but the people 

 connected with the byre are distinct, and there was no necessity 

 to have any communication. The straw barn and a court are 

 between the sheds. There is not more than 30 yards between 

 them. The twenty cattle referred to were in the courts all the 

 time. They were about the steading the whole time that the 

 others were affected. I was going through both byres once or 

 twice a week seeing how the cows were progressing. I had no 

 fear of carr}^ng contagion from the one to the other. If the 

 disease broke out again I would have inoculation at once without 

 any hesitation, and kill every animal above a certain temperature. 

 I am of opinion from what I have seen that cattle about 150 

 yards off from an infected spot are comparatively safe if you 

 do not go amongst them. I disinfected my byre. We con- 

 stantly used carbolic till lately. We whitewashed, and washed 

 the walls with hot water. When inoculation fails to be a 

 preventative it is the fault of the operator entirely ; it cannot 

 fail if properly carried out, and much depends upon the attention 

 given while the inoculation is running its course, and care must 

 be taken never to try it on an animal with temperature too high. 

 The animals are very tender at that time, and are very easily 

 injured. We had to stop every draught and to take great care. 

 The man was always there, and I was constantly going about. 

 I think that to slaughter the whole herd is perfectly unneces- 

 sary, after the experience we have had. Mine might have been 

 slaughtered, but when you kill seventy animals it is a serious 

 thing. 



Mr James Biggar, Grange, Dalbeattie, called in, 

 and examined. 



I hold about 650 acres in two holdings in Kirkcudbright- 

 shire. I have Galloways ; I have had one outbreak of pleuro- 

 pneumonia. I have two farms and two steadings. The stead- 

 ings are about three-quarters of a mile apart. We have had 

 breeding cows at each place, and the young stock from these 

 cows. We graze a few cattle in summer, and we feed a good 

 many cattle in winter. The outbreak took place about the 

 beginning of June last year. The outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia 

 was at Chapelton, where we had the smaller number of cattle. 

 At Grange, just previous to that, we had a cow sick. The 

 veterinary surgeon treated her for inflammation of the lungs ; 



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