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14. I do unhesitatingly assert that the steps I have taten with my herd at the time the 

 disease was prevalent among them — i.e., inoculating — finally saved tlic remaining portion 

 of tlicni, and that they never showed the slightest symptoms of disease since then. I 

 have been among cattle for the last forty years of my life, and I look upon inoculation to 

 be the best reme'dy that was ever introduced as yet, and the inventor deserves a high 

 meed of praise. 



I am strongly of opinion that inoculation saved the remaining portion of my herd at the 

 time. As regards the virus, it could not be procured at the present in the neighbourhood. 



15. I think inoculation ought to be made compulsory iu cases where the herds are aflccted 



by the disease, but not otherwise. 



41. 



1. About 1863. 



3. 1,500 at various times, not inoculated at the same time. 



4. Cattle iu general good store condition, appearing healthy, about 3 per cent, showing 



symptoms. 



5. Varying from foiir days to three weeks. 



12. We did lose more than about i per cent, through inoculation. 



13. Proved well with us, and almost immediately checked the disease if the inocidation was 



done with care, and in time. 



14. Very seldom cattle took the disease twice. We always observed, where the cattle were 



running thick together, that they caught it quicker and worse on low, cold, swampy 



ground. We always separated the cattle that showed symptoms from the others, and 



inoculated them, which we thought did good ; in no case we found inoculation doing 



liarm. 



We always observed that if a heast was far advanced in the disease before he was 



inoculated, that it died, but if the diseased cattle were taken in time, inoculation did 



a great deal of good. 



15. We do consider that an Act should be passed to inoculate if the disease was to show 

 much on a run, but not for a few showing symptoms. Ever since the disease showed in 

 this district, a person will see a few here and there. 



42. 



1. August, 1863. 



3. 4,500. 



4. Mostly in low condition, 30 per cent, showing disease. 



5. The disease had appeared about two months before inoculation was commenced. 



12. No deaths occurred from swelling, and nothing further was done with the cattle after 



being once inocidated. 



13. In about five months after the inoculation no disease was visible in the herd, but up to 



that time occasional cases were to be seen, these cases becoming gradually fewer imtil 

 the disease went away. 



14. In all cases iu which the disease has come mider my observation, it woidd appear to 

 have been communicated by contagion. When not brought direct into the heart of a 

 run or district at once by diseased travelling cattle, it would gradually make its way from 

 run to run, and from one portion of a run to another, apparently extending itself as the 

 sound cattle came into contact with the diseased ones. I have never known an instance 

 of its appearing suddenly upon a run unless the neighbouring runs had been previously 

 diseased, or else infected cattle been brought on in travelling mobs. In February, 



1864, I left a station near , with 3,200 head of store cattle to be 



taken to the River. The disease was just beginning to show amongst the cattle 



when they started ; by the time that they had been a week upon the road, they were dying 

 at the rate of about ten in a day, and (apparently aggravated by the exertion necessary 

 for travelling, and the intermixture of the sound with the diseased cattle), the disease 

 went on extending itself until sometimes twenty-five would die in twenty-four hours. 

 When the cattle were in this state, an arrangement was made for stopping, inocidating (he 



cattle, and resting for some weeks on a station on the above . For 



a fortnight after the inoculation, the cattle died very rapidly. After that time, the daily 

 number of deaths began to diminish. In another week there were not more than two or 

 three deaths in a day, and no fresh cases were to be seen making their appearance. In 

 a month from the time of inoculation, the deaths had ceased ; and (some hundreds of 

 the cattle that had partially recoverccl from the disease, having been weeded out and 

 sold), the rest of the journey was accomplished without any further loss. I believe 

 that after the cattle arrived at their destination, no single case of pleuro-pneumonia 

 was ever seen amongst them until all had gone to market. 



15. Yes. 



