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(3.) — EeSFLT of PeESONAL IXQriET ON THE COKTINENT BESPECTING 



IXOCTLATION. 



I also found tKis to be the case from personal inquiry in 

 Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, France, and Italy, in 

 November and December last. Tlirougli the kindness of Sir 

 Charles Cowper, Agent General for the Colony, I was accredited 

 by the Foreign Office, London, to Her Majesty's Ambassadors 

 in the Countries I have mentioned ; and on presenting my creden- 

 tials at the different Embassies, I was at once favoured with 

 introductions to the heads of the veterinary departments in these 

 Countries. These gentlemen, in every instance, took great pains 

 to supply me with the information 1 required, and gave me an 

 opportunity of studying the diseases with which I was unac- 

 quainted — while, with regard to pleuro-pneumonia and its treat- 

 ment, they, one and all, expressed themselves decidedly in favour 

 of inoculation ; and on learning from my letter to the " Veterina- 

 rian" the manner in which our cattle are kept and managed, 

 Btrongly recommended its practice in Australia. In fact, they 

 went so far as to say that no veterinary authority on the 

 Continent of any note now disputed the efficacy of inoculation. 



(4.) — Teeatment of Pleubo-pxeumonia i>- Geemant. 



I further learned from Professor Milller, of Berlin (to whom, 

 as well as to Director EoU, of Vienna, I am under particular 

 obligations for the information and assistance they afforded me), 

 that the general practice in Germany is, — when an outbreak 

 occurs in such places as the Beetroot Sugar Factories, where large 

 numbers of cattle are fattened off on the refuse of the beet, and 

 where there are, of course, frequent changes of stock, — to kill 

 the diseased animal and inoculate the others. This practice is 

 also generally followed in the case of outbreaks of pleuro- 

 pneumonia in the large dairies where fresh cows are being con- 

 stantly introduced. AVhen, again, an outbreak occurs on a farm 

 in a breeding district, where changes of stock are comparatively 

 few, it is usual to kill off the whole herd on the farm and place 

 the land and premises in quarantine, the owner receiving com- 

 pensation to the extent of the full value of the stock destroyed — 

 not as in England a niggardly allowance of onc-lialf the value of 

 the animal slaughtered, which tends to defeat the object for which 

 the law is passed. This course is adopted, as it is considered 

 better in such cases, especially as the amount required for com- 

 pensation is small, to stamp out the disease at once and remove 

 all risk of allowing the infection to spread to the neighbouring 

 herds. 



