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animal remained so apparently healthy that the owner would 

 not believe that there was anything wrong with it at all. I 

 told him it was suffering from pleuro. He resisted as far 

 as lay in his power the killing of the animal. However, others 

 began to drop off, one after another, and we killed them. 

 I only left this one out to satisfy the owner until he would 

 come to my way of thinking. I killed it too, and I found at 

 the ■post-rtiorte'in examination that it had a very large cyst in 

 one of the lungs. That encysted animal was probably in his 

 byre two months before the others began to show signs of 

 disease. Since that time I have had other two cases 

 almost exactly identical with this one. They were all these 

 bought from a dealer in the neighbourhood, and put among 

 healthy cattle. I am strongly in favour of inoculating. I 

 know that the authorities are very strongly against it ; so 

 strongly against it, that they say, if you inoculate an animal, 

 and if there is a cyst, it becomes a centre of disease; 

 but I contend that it won't, and that if you inoculate at once 

 there is no danger of having any cysts. There are men who 

 deny the power of any veterinary surgeon to say that, but if you 

 read my report you will I think be satisfied. Professor Brown 

 is as much against it as I am in favour of it. I would willingly 

 agree, though I think it unnecessary, that the movements of all 

 animals inoculated should be restricted for twelve months, or, 

 if deemed prudent, for the remaining portion of their life ; and 

 earnestly desire that every one of them should be registered and 

 subjected to jpost-mnortemfh examination. I am quite sure that 

 none of them would present a single patch of disease. I think 

 that that would be a perfectly practicable rule. It would enable 

 dairymen and others who complain so bitterly of the slaughter of 

 their herds to practice inoculation, and to carry on their trade 

 at the same time without hindrance. The local authorities 

 would require to register them, so that the whole thing 

 would be uiider their notice. I am of opinion that inocu- 

 lation should be made compulsory. I do not care what restric- 

 tions there are ; if inoculation be done intelligently it is bound 

 to come to the top. To enable the local authorities to give 

 satisfactory inoculation, they must put on good men. It is 

 not difficult to find them, but it is not for me to suggest that. 

 My experience is that those who have not practised inoculation 

 are against it, and those who have practised it are uniformly in 

 favour of it. If you had a college or school of inoculation its 

 success would depend on who you had at the head of it. You 

 might put an eminent surgeon at the head of it, and yet make 

 a mistake in regard to it. Some men cannot move out of the 

 old ruts, or stoop to get a mistake rectified. To be sure that 

 the lesion of the tail took, I would require to see it. You may 



