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making inoculation com])ulsorj in all cases where the cattle are 

 %«% infected, and prohibiting diseased animals from travelling— 

 should be passed. 



The legislation I would propose should contain some such pro- 

 visions as the following : — 



(1.) The inoculation of all cattle legally infected should be 



made compulsory. 

 (2.) Owners should g'ive notice of the outbreak of the disease 



to their neighbours, to Inspectors, and to the public. 

 (3.) JS'one but properly qualified and licensed Inoculatora 



should be allowed to inoculate for others. 

 (4.) All inoculated cattle should be branded as such with a 



brand to be fixed upon. 

 (5.) Properly inoculated cattle, on the expiry of sLv iveeJcs 

 from the last case of disease, should be allowed to 

 travel ; and such cattle should pass over infected ground 

 without being deemed infected. 

 (6.) Cattle which become infected, and are not inoculated, 

 should not be allowed to leave their runs for three months 

 after the last case of disease, nor travel over infected 

 ground. 



^^■'^ ^l';f elliug cattle, if fat, becoming diseased, should be 

 killed, and the balance of the mob taken to their 

 destination by the roads least likely to spread the dis- 

 ease ; while notice should be given to all owners of 

 horned stock on the road that the mob was infected, in 

 order that they may take their cattle out of the way of 

 the infection. 

 (8.) The owner of travelling stock should give notice of hia 

 intention to cross or pass along a run where stock of the 

 same desciption are kept, if the road be not separated 

 from the run by a sufBcient fence. • 



(9.) The drover should not abandon any infected travellin"- 

 stock, nor leave the carcasses of any stock which may 

 die undestroyed, under a penalty not exceeding £50. 

 It may be questioned whether such a measure as that here 

 suggested would wholly eradicate this disease from our herds • 

 but that it would reduce its ravages to one-tiihe of what they 

 now are is beyond all doubt, and it ought therefore to be enacted. 



2.— Cattle Plague, Foot and Mouth Disease, and Sheep-pox. 



As these diseases can only be combated by isolating and des- 

 troying the infected stock, and as that course L quite impracticable 

 in Australia owing to the impossibility of maintaining a perfect 

 qnaTantme,it IS evident th^t their introduction tcouhl brino utter 

 rum an the majority of our stock-oivners, and inflict incalculable 



