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1. Between tlie lOth April and 14.tli June, 1868. 



3. About 5,600. 



4. They were in good condition ; about 50 or 60 per cent, showed symptoms of disease. 



5. Some shewed symptoms in February, 1868, but only a few ; at that time the diseased 

 ones becoming more numerous untd they were inoculated. 



12. No deaths that we know of A few, say ten or fifteen at most, were swelled about the 



root of the tail ; aU got well without any dressing ; none were much swollen. 



13. The result is, that in nine or ten weeks after inoculation the herd were perfectly sound, 



and remain so up to this time. 



1-4. At the time our cattle were last diseased, we had 900 store cattle which liad been 

 inoculated about eight months before ; three of this lot took the disease, and they were 

 done again ; aU the rest kept sound, although running in the same enclosure with those 

 that were dying. We had inoculated oui- herd fire years before ; all tlie cattle that were 

 done at that time, remaining on the run, were free from disease last year. I at one 

 time inoculated about 500 head out of a paddock in wliich they were dying very fast ; 

 sixty-three head we could not get out of the paddock, on account of a creek which ran 

 tlu-ough it being flooded ; four of those inocidated died, and only eleven of the sixty- 

 three that were not done, lived, and they were never any good. The cattle had been 

 aU running together before the creek got up. Our cattle were first diseased six years 

 ago. The disease was much more fatal then than last year ; they sickened and died off 

 in a few days, very few recovered. Last year the disease was in a much milder form, 

 not so much fever, and altogether of a slower, more lingering nature ; and I think a 

 large number of the cattle would have recovered enough to get fat without inocidation ; 

 but I think a beast once diseased will never be sound until he is inoculated; the recoveiy 

 is only partial, the disease is still there, and only requires some sliglit cause to make 

 it active again, whereas the inoculated beast may have only a very small portion of 

 lung remaining, it will be perfectly sound, and perform the office which nature requires. 



15. Yes. 



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1. About November, 1867. 



3. 2,370. 



4. Cattle badly diseased when inoculated, and dying very fast ; about 15 per cent, shewing 



symptoms. 



5. About twelve months. 



12. Not 1 per cent, occurred through inoculation. Should any swelling occur at the butt 



of the tail, the beast should be put into a crush pen, and the tail cut oH' as high up or 

 till the blood aj^pcars healthy. 



13. The resvdt was favourable. 



14. I believe in inoculation, as the cattle were dying fast before, and after inoculation 



scarcely one instance of pleuro-pneumonia occiu-red, and the cattle have been in a healthy 



state ever since. 



Cows heavy with calf should not be inoculated, as death is almost sure to follow. 



I have inoculated about 500 head in for myself and others, and scarcely a death 



occurred afterwards ; also, about 2,370 at . I believe cattle that have died 



from pleuro-pneumonia should be burnt, as other cattle smelling them w iU catch the 



infection. 



The greatest art in inoculating is to know how to take the virus and to pass the seton 



in without touching the bone. 



15. I believe that an Act should be passed obliging owners of infected cattle to inoculate, 



and competent persons apjioinled in each district to see that cattle diseased badly 

 should be destroyed and burnt by their owners. 



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1. Three years next January. 



3. 1,000 head. 



4. They were in good condition ; the percentage was about foui' per day. 



5. About four days. 



12. A few died — from four to five, when they were first inoculated. I bled them in the tail 



by making an incision, and if that did not stop the swelling, I cut the tail off to the 

 root ; I also cut the rump open when they wei-e swelled, and that finally cui'edthcm, or 

 rather removed the swelling. 



13. I believe it ciu-ed them. 



