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15. We arc of opiuion that an Act to enforce inociilation in the infected herds would be 

 exceedingly beneficial to the stockholders in general, as well as the owner of the 

 infected herd. We also consider that any herd may be inoculated, and should not lose 

 1 per cent., if done with any degree of care. 



16. 



3. 700. 



4. Nearly all fat, about 3 per cent, showing symptoms. 



5. Had been first noticed about seven days before inoculated. 



12. No deaths from swelhng. 



13. About 100 died after inoculation ; all these cattle were kept together. 

 15. No. 



17. 



14. I tliiuk by inoculating with good virus would prevent the disease spreading, and 



eventually do away with it, for I consider inoculation to be a preventative, but not 

 a cui-e. 



18. 



1. February and March, 1862. I have not inoculated cattle here ; but when living on the 



' , in 1862, , inoculated part of liis herd. As well as I 



remember about fhem, I -n-ill give you the particulars. 



3. 1,500 head, in a herd of about 6,000. 



4. The cattle first inoculated were a mob of store cattle (600 head), that had travelled 400 



mdes ; about 10 per cent, were diseased. 



5. Cannot tell about the store cattle (first done), the remainder of herd inoculated had not 



pleuro when done. 



12. Yes, about 3 per cent. ; some were brought in, and the tail lanced, I tliink this saved 



a good many. The one that lost the end of tail had the bad part cut off from sound. 



13. Of the store cattle that were diseased when inoculated, a great many died — I should say 



15 per cent. ; of the other 900 inoculated, about 5 per cent. died. 



14. The disease went through the herd in about four months, the uninoculated cattle 



getting rid of it as soon as the inocidated ones. I have seen inocidated cattle (done in 

 the way I mention) get the pleuro, and die from it. I think the disease is an epidemic, 

 wliich attacked dilTe rent parts of the country at different times, taking about five months 

 to go thro\igh a herd ; you will always see a few cattle bad every year afterwards. The 

 plem-o broke out on this run after the drought of '62 ; this was three years before I 

 bought ; I have put on 3,500 store cattle since buying, some of which were diseased. 

 I did not inoculate, but left the cattle alone. One lot stopped dying very soon after 

 being turned out ; the loss was small, but I always see a few cattle bad every year — 

 about 1 per cent. 



15. No ; I think if cattle are left alone, you woidd not lose as many as by inoculating them. 



If you inoculated cattle travelling, you woidd drop a great many from swelled tads, 

 without their being diseased. 



19. 



1. November, 1867. 



3. 600. 



4. Very bad — 20 per cent. 



5. Nine months. 



12. 1 per cent. See No. 10 in reference to the latter part of this question. 



13. In less than tlu-ce months the cattle were perfectly free from disease. 



14. The next station to mine is occupied by ; he only inocidated a few of his, 



and cattle of liis that have strayed on my run, I have seen them die, when none of the 

 cattle that had been inoculated sufiercd in the least. The chief thing is to get a beast 

 in the proper stage to take the virus, also to look well after the cattle when inoculated. 



15. Yes. 



20. 



1. In the spring of 1864. 



3. About 1,000 head. 



4. Inoculated none shewing symptoms of disease— any that appeared sick not brought into 

 the yard. 



5. The first appearance of the disease in the herd was about eight or nine months before 



tlie time of inocidatiou, but only in a few in one mob on the run. 

 12. About 3 or 4 ])cr cent, of deaths occurred from swellings throughout the herd. The 

 means used to cure them, was the knife, — cutting out all tlie coloured flesh, and 

 dressing with butter of antimony and Yenice turpentine ; only the worst cases were 

 attended to in this manner, and of over fifly treated only two died, and I feel satisfied 

 that more than half of those fifty would have died hud they been let alone. 



