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those who are paying compensation, as being the men most 

 interested in it. I mean the local authorities. If it came to 

 four times a couple of thousand pounds, it would be cheap com- 

 pared with the present method of compensation. 



Perth Show Yard, July 27, 1887. 

 Present : — 



Mr Robert Paterson of Birthwood, Chairman. 



The Hon. R. Baillie Hamilton. 



Mr Patrick Stirling of Kippendavie. 



Mr W. J. Maxwell, yr. of Munches. 



Mr James Murray, Catter House. 



Dr A. P. AiTKEN, Edinburgh. 



Mr R. O. F. Stewart, Montrose, called in, and examined. 



My answers to queries sent me refer to a cow that was bought 

 in November, and after being home about three days it got bad. 

 The temperature was a little elevated, but I could see nothing 

 wrong with her. I made the owner insulate her, and she was put 

 into a stable. She had been three days in the byre along with 

 his other cows. After the insulation she went on well. About 

 twelve weeks afterwards one of his cows dropped a calf She was 

 very bad, and at the end of four months three cows out of the 

 five showed all the symptoms of pleuro-pneumonia, and were 

 killed, the pos^-Tnor^ew. examination revealing all the symptoms of 

 pleuro-pneumonia. No cattle, except the cow I referred to as 

 fresh purchased, and not a week in contact with the other cows, 

 had been brought in for two years previously. The cow was, to all 

 appearance, the healthiest animal previous to death. She was 

 isolated, and retained in the stable for four months and two days. 

 The other three cows in that byre took bad, but she got through 

 the disease. When killed, there was a patch of about 2 inches 

 square on the lung. That was an old sort of encysted lung. She 

 was a contaminating medium throughout. She was healthy-look- 

 ing, milking, and ruminating ; but still she was a source of disease 

 in the place. She must have had the seeds of the disease when 

 she was bought. There was a chaff barn between the common 

 byre and the stable. She was located in the stable. She 

 was under the same roof as the other cows, but the same 

 atmosphere did not go through the building. There was no 

 contamination of the air. There was no opportunity of her 

 breathing the same air through the building. She had really 

 been suffering from pleuro-pneumonia when she came. I 



