12 . 

 9. 



1. 18G5, 1866, and 1867. 



3. In 1865 a herd of about 800 running on tlio (since sold), and about 150 on this 



establishment ; and in the two following years their increase, and two lots of store 

 cattle there purchased. 



4. Cattle very much infected with the disease, the first year many deaths occurring before 



the ojieration was performed. On the the estimated loss was about 12 V per 



cent. ; here it was 25. 



5. About four months, the fattest of the cattle appeared the most disposed to take the 



disease, and with those it was the most fatal. 



12. The deaths from the effects of inoculation I estimate at 3 per cent. Some cattle die 



from pleuro after inoculation, but these I believe are infected previous to the operation. 



13. When the disease first apjieared in my cattle, before they were inoculated, fresh cases 

 were to be seen nearly every day ; after inoculating, in a week or ten days there were 

 no fresh cases. 



li. I have not the least doubt that inoculation is a preventive to the disease called pleuro- 

 pneumonia, as in all the cases where I have seen it so treated the disease has 

 disiippeared ; in one instance, an animal which had been properly inoculated appeared 

 to have the disease, it was about ten days after the operation, but in a few days it was 

 quite well ; therefore it is probable other causes may have produced similar symptoms. 



15. I do not think it necessary to make inoculation compulsory. Every owner lias the remedy 

 in his own hands. If A inoculates his herd, and B, his neighbour, does not, he is the 

 loser ; A's cattle will not take it a second time. But I think if it was compulsory to 

 burn animals that died travelling, it would be a wholesome precaution, not only for 

 pleuro, but all other diseases. 



10. 



1. About October, 1864. 



3. Fifty head. 



4. All clean. 



12. Only one, as above stated. 



14. The cattle I inoculated, as before described, about fifty head, was in a paddock by them- 



selves, and in another paddock close by I had sixteen very fine bullocks fattening, Mhen 

 disease came into them and took five of them ; the remainder I disposed of, fearing more 

 of them might go, they being good beef. My son being down about the time from my 

 Namoi station, Avhere the disease had raged very high, taking I believe something hke 

 a thu'd of the herd ; my son anxious about the rapid spreading of the disease, resolved 

 npon trying inoculation, but not until a great many had died, and as I before said, 

 disease very much in the herd, after whicli it soon began to abate, and he pronounces 

 himself very mnch in favour of inoculation. 



15. Although I fidly believe in inoculation, I am not in favour that an Act shonld be passed 



obhging owners to inoculate, for the very fact the disease has been in every herd that I 

 know of, and occasionally I hear of fresh cases, but not to any great extent, of which 

 I think we shall always be subject. 



11. 



1. June, 1864. 



3. 200. 



4. Partially healthy ; 5 per cent. 



5. A few days. 



12. Deaths at : — Milking herd, where I inoculated fifty, I lost one ; fifty I did 



not inocnia/e, I lost one. At I inoculated 150, and lost twenty-five head. 



I account for this in many ways, but principally because the herd was not 



quiet, the hei'd was. 



13. On the whole, as a general thing throughoiit the whole country, I consider inoculation 



unsatisfactory, and if carried out arbitrary. 



14. I think I have stated before in No. 12 what No. 14 wishes ; and now, with regard to 



any other information, I beg respeetfidly to state, and I believe any one who has a 

 large herd of cattle, say from 3,000 upwards, would lose more by inoculation than 

 by not inoculating. I cannot bring before your notice more than you know yourself. 



15. That seven herds of cattle out of ten are what are considered wild herds, or in other 



words, not perfectly quiet to handle, therefore after inoculation in such herds, tlie great 

 battle and drawback becomes the second consideration ; after inocidation, sickness, of 

 various kinds, set in, swelUng of tlie hinder parts ; cattle arc some miles from the head 

 station, and cannot travel, it is quite out of the question to dress them on the spot 

 where found, and to drive them is impossible. My opinion is, if of any value, legis- 

 lation on such a subject is better left alone. I can recommend sulphur, and beheve 

 such to be a perfect cure. I shall be glad to give you all the information in my power 

 when we meet, which I fancy will not be many days hence. 



