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 59. 



1. July, 1868. 



3. 2,800. 



4. Diseased ; about 5 per cent, showing symptoms. 



5. About three months. 



12. No deaths occurred from excessive swellings ; there were a few with swelled tails, but 

 these were taken to the yard, and either scarified or else the tail cut completely off. 

 I shoidd advise the latter plan, to save risk and trouble ; in ti'ying to save the tail, I have 

 lost the beast in several instances. 



13. No diseased cattle have since been seen on the runs. 



Id-. The old cattle belonging to the run had been inoculated previously, but showed no 

 symptoms of disease at the time of the second inocidation ; the young cattle, on the 

 contrary, showed symptoms — they had not been inoculated. The disease is not seen here 

 now, imlcss with cattle coming from other parts, and which have not been inoculated. 

 I don't think there are any cattle in this district which have not been inoculated ; if 

 there are, I know nothing of them. 



15. Yes. 



60. 



1. February and March, 1868. 



3. 1,600. 



4. Diseased ; about 10 per cent, showing symptoms. 



5. About six months. 



12. About 1 per cent of deaths ; six of these from about eighty head, done with other virus ; 



cut the tails off, and made incisions in the rump. 



13. No disease has since been seen on the station. 



14. I started about 900 of these cattle on the road previous to inocidation, and lost between 

 two and throe hundred from disease. The cattle on the adjoining station had not at 

 that time been inocidated, and a great number of them were diseased. I got virus 

 from them to inoculate with. Cattle continued to die on the neigbouring station when 

 inoculation had not been resorted to, while those I had inocidated were and have been 

 up to the present time perfectly free from disease. Those cattle have since been 

 inoculated. It is more than twelve months since I left the Clarence, consequently, I 

 cannot give any information about uninoculated cattle. I tliink all the cattle in that 

 district are inocidated ; I only knew of one station there, and they have since, I beUeve, 

 resorted to the usual means to check the disease, viz., inoculation. 



15. Yes. 



61. 



3. 1,000. 



4. Were diseased ; 50 per cent, showed symptoms. 



5. Six months. 



12. Deaths did occur after inocidation ; the sweUings were scarified, and salt applied. 



13. Disease disappeared shortly after inocidation. 



15. I consider an Act shoidd be passed obhging owners to inoculate. 



62. 



1. No record kept. 



3. About 300. 



4. Healthy ; the fii'st affected was killed for vii'us. 



5. AU healthy. 



12. I did not lose a single beast from inoculating. 



13. My neighbours round were losing cattle both before and after inoculation ; and their 



cattle with the disease were often mixed with mine ; but mine, except the one killed for 

 virus, were not affected, except in one instance a bullock after inoculation showed 

 symptoms of the disease, he was put in a paddock and watched, but no remedies 

 applied ; he had the disease in a very mdd form, and fattened well after it. 



14. I have no doubt of the efficacy of inoculation, if properly performed, and with proper 



TU'us. I had determined to inoculate my cattle as soon as the chscase came near enough 

 to get proper virus, which I did at the same time mine were done. The cattle of two 

 or three small settlers were done at the same time, and I did not hear of theh* losing 

 any ; at the same time, their neighbours, who had employed a professed inoculator, 

 were constantly losing theirs, both from the first effects of the inocidation, and the 

 disease afterwards. The virus he used was described to me as blacker than port wine. 

 In another case I knew several were lost, but the needle w^as passed so deej) that the 

 blood ran in a stream from the tad ; in fact, the needle was passed through the tail, 

 instead of under the cuticle only. 



