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 43. 



3. About 500. 



4. No sign of any disease. 



12. A few deaths occurred through excessive swelling. No cure was tried. 



13. Fewer deaths than previous to inoculation. 



14. Inoculation, if properly performed, I beheve acts as a preventive ; but if cattle are 

 diseased when inoculated, they will die, unless the disease is in a very mUd form. I 

 have known cattle in one paddock not inoculated dying rapidly, wlnlst cattle in an 

 adjoining paddock (who had every chance of being diseased) who were inocidated, did 

 not show any symptoms of the disease. 



15. Yes, most decidedly. 



44. 



1. 31st March, 1869. 



3. 450. 



4. Cattle were poor, recently piu-chased in New England ; three or four were observed with 



symptoms of the disease. 



5. Disease was noticed seven or eight days before inoculation. 



12. 2 per cent, died from excessive swelling ; no iiieans were used to cure. 



13. I have seen no cattle affected with the disease since they were inoculated, 



14. As far as my experience goes, I have found inocidation, when properly done, to be a 



certain preventive of after infection. 



I have had only a small herd of cattle (about 300 head) for some years, and have never 

 had them all regidarly inoculated ; but as far as I can form an opinion without accurate 

 classification, I have noticed that those inocidated are seldom or ever attacked, while 

 those not inoculated almost invariably are, sooner or later. 



15. I do not think that an Act making inoculation compulsory is at all necessai'y. The 



remedy is so simple that it is in the power of every cattle-owner to protect himself ; and 

 any one wilfully neglecting his own interests by not using it, deserves to suffer. 



45. 



1. October, 1866. 



3. 1,270. 



4. In good condition ; about 6 per cent. 



5. The cattle were inoculated immediately after the disease appeared. 



12. About 1 per cent, died from the tails swelling ; I then piit the inoculated cattle into a 



crush pen on the ninth day, and cut their tails off a little above the swollen place, which 

 saved all the rest. 



13. The disease here was not very bad , still none of the cattle I inoculated have ever had 



the disease since, and did as well in every way as the others that were not done. 



14. Some of the cattle while travelling to market, have been mixed with other drafts that 



were more or less diseased, but none of them seemed any the worse, or showed any 

 symptoms of the disease. I do not think it is any use whatever to inocidate any cattle 

 that have recovered from the disease, or any that show symptoms of the disease. 



15. I do not think it necessary to pass an Act obliging owners to inocidate tlieir cattle ; in a 



great many instances, where the diseases appears, it is in so mild a form that very few 

 die from it ; and a beast will never have it a second time, in my opinion. 



46. 



1. Some six or seven years ago. 



3. About 800 head, mostly milkers, crawlers, and working bullocks. 



4. Cattle not diseased when inoculated. 



5. Not at all. 



12. A great many deaths occurred from excessive swelling, caused by inoculation — 75 per 



cent., I should think ; no steps taken to cure the swellings. 



13. Very bad indeed ; it completely anuiliilated a fine herd of crawlers I had ; they were 



never the same afterwards. 



14. I beUeve in inocidation of cattle if done at the right time, but here is the difficulty, and 

 with proper virus ; but not one out of a hundred know how to get the virus correctly, 

 and at the proper stage, nor can they tell when the beast is diseased, for a long time after 

 it has it. I think no good can result from inoculation after the beast has the disease. 



15. Decidedly not, because then I believe it is useless. I would prefer inoculating healthy 



cattle, and tlius prevent that disease attacking them, but it would rest with me whether 

 the virus was good. 



