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12. ITV ( 



1. 1867. 



3. 1,000. I , 



4. About 5 per cent, sliowing symptoms of disease. ( \ ' I r > ' 



5. Can't give tliis information. 



12. None tlied, except those affected before inoculation. 



13. Stopped the disease. 



14. Disease has not made its appearance since the inoculation. 



13. 



1. First time, about the year 1861, upon cattle bred by myself; about July, 1868, about 

 300 purchased. 



3. 6,000 head. 



4. Very bad, all, more or less. 



5. Supposed to be about three months. 



12. After inoculation, from swelling, about 1 per cent, died, or less. No method adopted 



to cure swelling, but I have known in several instances, that where the svfollen parts 

 have been lanced the beasts have recovered. 



13. Total eradication of the disease. 



14. I do not know of a single instance of cattle that had been properly inoculated again 

 taking the disease. In one instance, a number of cattle in a high state of disease {not 

 then inoculated), and some dying, were ])ut into a paddock with cattle which had been 

 inoculated some three years previously ; not one of those cattle which had been inoculated 

 was even siek ; the diseased cattle were six weeks with the inoculated cattle originally 

 in the paddock, and were then inoculated, when the deaths ceased within a fortnight, 

 and the cattle recovered during that season, and are now fat, and lit for market. 



15. There is not a diseased beast in the paddock. Has also 3,000 not inoculated (grown 



up since the rest were), which have neither been infected nor inoculated. 



Does not consider inoculation should be made compiUsory ; as a rule, owners will 



inoculate. 



14. 



1. September, 1855. 



3. 500. 



4. About one-third showed symptoms. 



5. One month after exhibiting symptoms. 



12. About 3 per cent, died ; and the means used were cutting off the tails above the joints 

 where inoculated ; found this effective. 



13. Satisfactory. 



14. Exposed, but not affected. My cattle were inoculated for safety sake ; but my opinion 



is, they would have done as well without, as I do not believe I would have lost a 

 gi'eatcr per-centage had I let them have their chance. 



15. I do not. 



15. 



1. About 8th NoTember, 1868. 



3. 330 head. 



4. The cattle were poor when inoculated, having a short time previously been driven from 



Maitland here, as store cattle. 



5. These cattle showed symptoms of pleuro on the journey, though none died on the road ; 

 after arrival (about a fortnight), one beast took disease, and another shortly afterwards. 



12. Two beasts died through the inoculation, out of 330 ; they were not attended to ; others 



may have died, but their tails were cut off about half way up, which allowed blood 

 to escape, and the beasts immediately got well. 



13. No cattle were ever known to be infected after inoculation, except those having pleuro 



at the time of the operation, which are almost svire to die. We think the cause of the 

 swelling in the tails is often caused by the needle being run into the bone of the tail, 

 or the operation being carelessly performed. 

 11. We prevent newly inoculated cattle from mixing with uninoculated cattle for a month 

 or so, though we cannot say that the inoculation carries disease. We buy from 600 

 to 800 store cattle every year, and when we find pleui'o existing in cattle purchased, 

 we immediately inoculate, and never had in any case a single beast die after a month 

 or two had expired after the operation, and then only cattle which were supposed to 

 have been infected at the time, or were carelessly inoculated. Some persons still deny 

 that the inoculation prevents disease, but we consider it to be a certain j^rerentative. 

 Sometimes we have purchased a lot of cattle, and have thought disease did not exist 

 amongst them, but after a month or so had elapsed, one or two may die, and the pleuro 

 remain amongst them, killing perhaps one or two per mouth for a year. AVe now, 

 however, consider it better to inoculate upon the first appearance of pleuro, thereby 

 avoiding occasional losses after the cattle are fat or nearly so. 



