LIVE STOCK. 



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Cattle. — Some three or four jears ago there wore many cases of tuber- 

 culosis among our cattle, but its true nature has become known, and 

 owners are by killing and boiling down those showing symptoms of tlio 

 disease gradually lessening the number of affected animals. They are 

 adopting the same course with regard to cancer and actinomycosis 

 with like results. Wo have at times outbreaks of pleuro-])neum(jnia 

 (mostly traceable to Queensland cattle) which are stamped out by inocu- 

 lation. There are also occasional losses from blackleg and splenic 

 apoplexy, but the losses from those ailments are, as a rule, slight. 



Sheep. — The diseases which have caused the heaviest losses in she(Mi 

 arc fluke, worms, and foot-rot, for which owners are now generally a])ply- 

 ing the most effective remedies, i.e., surface draining, burnin"- off old 

 pasture, and giving proper licks and drenches. A few years back a 

 good many sheep were lost from liver-rot, brought on by a series of 

 wet seasons ; but this disease has now almost disappeared. The most 

 deadly disease among our sheep is anthrax, but it is not generally jireva- 

 lent, and is to a large extent kept in check, and it is hoped will be 

 eventually reduced to a minimum by the system of vaccination intro- 

 duced by the late Mens. Pasteur, and carried out in the Colony by one 

 of his pupils, M. Moment, and by Mr. J. A. Gunu, an Australian expert, 

 who prepares his own vaccine. There has been no scab in the Colony 

 since 1868, but the sheep suffer from tick, and in a few instances from 

 lice. 



Akxual Retuen from the Live Stock or the Coloxy, 



Prepared by Mr. Government Statistician Coghlan. 



