17 



Two died from swollinrr on tlie rump. Cutting tlic tail witli a knife in different places, 

 also the rump, using Venice turpentine and butter of antimony. 



12. 



ip, using Venice turpentine and butter of antimony. 

 13. None after were ailected with pleuro-pneumonia. 



11. I am not aware of any cattle being infected after inoculation. Cattle reared in this 

 district are more liable to die with pleuro-pneuinonia than cattle from the interior arc. 



15. I do not consider owners should be obliged to inoculate when pleuro-pneumonia appears 

 in their herds. 



27. 



1. In July, 1864. 



3. About'1,200. 



4. Some diseased ; others showing no symptoms of disease. 



5. About two months previously the first symptoms were observed. 



12. Some deaths occurred — percentage uncertain ; no means of alleviation were tried. 



13. Quite as many cattle seemed to die after the inoculation as before it, and no decided 



benefit was observed to result from it. 

 1-4. I am by no means assured that inoculation is beneficial, but tried it, as it was reported 



to be so in many cases. Bleeding all the cattle in spring or autumn, and giving them 



salt on their run would, it seems to me, be a preventive of any blood disease. 

 15. I do not think it essential to compel inoculation ; but I do think that the owners of 



infected cattle should be compelled to keep them in secure paddocks, and prevented 



driving them about the country. 



28. 



1. June, 1867. 



3. 157. 



4. A portion of the herd were diseased, but not those which were inoculated. Of the 

 portion of the herd diseased, 30 per cent, showed symptoms. The disease is very far 

 advanced before a beast shows symptoms, and a beast is very bad before symptoms can 

 be seen. 



5. One month. 



12. Some of the cattle died from the effect of inoculation — I believe it was caused by the 

 needle passing through the bone of the tail. No means were tried to cure, for they 

 usually died in less than four days. I should say about 2J per cent. 



13. I believe inoculation will preveut disease, but to inoculate sound cattle you would lose 



2^ per cent, with any care. 



IJr. I inoculated my milking herd, because the disease had made its appearance in another 

 part of the run, the milking herd then had never been diseased ; there were then 

 thirteen fat cattle which I intended to send to market among them ; the thirteen fat I 

 did not inoculate. In the course of two weeks these thirteen began to die, and five 

 died in a very short time, and I thought it advisable to kill the remaining eight for 

 rations. The inoculated cattle were exposed to the disease, but not affected after well. 



15. I cannot see that an Act should be passed to insist on owners inoculatiug, for I believe 

 that if the disease once appears in a camp of cattle, that inoculation among that lot 

 would only hurry and increase deaths ; and to inoculate other portions of the herd, you 

 must have diseased cattle close at hand to get virus from. 



29. 



1. June, 18G5. 



3. 2,000 head. 



4. 2 per cent, dead daily. State of cattle good. Store condition inclined to poor. 



5. Three weeks. 



12. No deaths from above cause. 



13. Perfect cure, as cattle ceased dying, and took to fattening immediately. 



1-i'. With regard to inoculation, the only thing I can say with regard to it is this — that those 

 cattle were dying, and that as soon as inoculated they ceased doing so, and I have also 

 seen other herds of cattle dying at a most alarming rate — in fact, if they kept on for a 

 few weeks there would not have been many left on the station — when inoculation was 

 resorted to, and after a few days the disease disappeared, and the cattle seemed to 

 thrive and fatten immediately after. Cattle once inoculated seldom or ever take 

 pleuro again; but some that may have been diseased at the time of being inoculated 

 may, if they get very poor, in a year or two after, take to coughing, and linger on for a 

 year or so, and then die. In this district, I do not believe there are any herds tliat have 

 shown any symptoms of pleuro but have been inoculated ; therefore, I think pleuro, 

 except in beasts that have not been inoculated, is very rare, but I have seen even tliis 

 winter one or two beasts die from something like pleuro ; but there is a throat disease, 

 which is most difficult to distinguish from )ileuro, and therefore it would be very hard 

 to say a beast died from pleuro without first examining such beast, as I have shot 

 beasts to procure the lung, and then found the disease to be that of the throat. 



