270 EPITOME OF EVIDENCE ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 



of pleuro-pneumonia on my farms. The first outbreak was fully 

 twenty years ago. The second year after I had taken Gallow- 

 hill, I bought a cow in the Glasgow Cattle Market. I under- 

 stood from the party I bought her of that she had come 

 from the West Highlands direct ; but I found afterwards that 

 she had been lying about the Glasgow Cattle Market for eight 

 days before I bought her. After she had been at the farm 

 about five weeks, I observed her coughing. I examined her 

 chest, and I detected indications of a lung affection. I ordered 

 her out of the byre there and then, and had her put by herself 

 I also gave instructions to watch the others. But, unfortunately, 

 the disease had spread by this time to the other animals. I think 

 that, with scarcely an exception, the stock took pleuro-pneu- 

 monia in a very bad form, and I had many deaths. At that 

 time there was no compensation given. We were under no 

 restrictions ; but I treated the cattle on the farm, and buried 

 those that died. That was my first experience. I think I lost 

 the half of them by death. For a long time I could put no 

 cows on the farm. I had to purchase sheep to eat the grass. 

 The treatment I gave those that I carried through was as 

 follows : — In the first place, I took out all those that were badly 

 affected. I used carbolic acid largely. I gave it to the 

 animals in water to drink, and I also washed their bodies with 

 crude carbolic acid. We scattered sawdust on the walks, and 

 watered them with brown carbolic acid, and with a brush dipped 

 in it we sprinkled it over the wall in front of the cattle for them 

 to inhale. My object in sprinkling was to liberate the gas and 

 destroy the virus. The cloths were attached to strings through 

 the apartment, so that they might dry by evaporation, so as to 

 get the atmosphere thoroughly disinfected. That seemed to have 

 no effect in staying the ravages of the disease. I gave the 

 animals iron, and other agents that I thought would be of use. 

 It was about twelve months before fresh stock was brought in. 

 The animal I refer to was in my byre before I discovered 

 pleuro-pneumonia about six weeks. I examined the lungs of 

 the animal after I killed it. They were not in a very bad 

 state, but there were structural changes showing that pleuro- 

 pneumonia had existed for some time, but I could not say 

 how long. We often get the lung pretty good, except in one 

 portion, which becomes encysted. In those cases where you 

 have much structural disease the animal shows symptoms 

 which attract attention to it. If that had been the case, I 

 would have seen it at once. I was disappointed that the lungs 

 were not in a worse state. I concluded that the cow had been 

 labouring under disease before it came into my possession. 

 Most of the other animals showed disease. If I recollect, they 

 took ill about six weeks after this cow had been in the byre. 



