30 



77. 



1. April 26th. 



3. 199. 



4. About 3 per cent, showed sigiis of disease. 



5. A fortnight. 



12. None. 



13. Nearly all the cattle that were diseased preTions to inoculation died. 



14. Do not consider it infectious ; have known one or two to be diseased in the paddock, and 



none of the others caught the infection. 



15. Decidedly not. 



78. 



1. March, 1867. 



3. All the herd— 150. 



4. Two ; symptoms, hard breathing. 



5. One week. 



1 2. Lost forty head ; excessive swelling ; cut off the tail. 



1 4. I consider tlie disease iufectious, as wo had none infected until a diseased team came 



from the New England Road, and passing . I believe most of them died, and 



otlier teams generally. A pair of mates, one man named , had his team inocu- 

 lated in the usual way, and watched them daily, squeezing what matter he coidd from 

 the wound in the tail, and did not lose any. I consider if I had known tliis method 



of attention, I should not have lost so many. I believe one man named never 



inoculated, neither has he lost any. 

 15. Yes. 



79. 



1. August, September, and October, 18G5. 



3. About 1800. 



4. The herd in store condition ; about 30 per cent, showed symptoms of having the disease. 



5. About three months. 

 12 .Not ascertainable. 



13. The herd in eighteen months' time reduced 50 per cent. If a beast took the disease 



after being inocidated, it invariably died. See my remarks on the state of 



herd. 



14. As stated above, if a beast took the disease after inoculation, it invariably died. Of 



cattle that are now killed on the station, 99 per cent, show signs of having had the 

 disease, the indication being a lung adhering to either side of the I'ibs, the lung being 

 partially callous. 



15. I do not think so. 



80. 



1. First of inoculation, March, 186 i. 



3. 2,348, at different periods. 



4. We lost something like 25 per centage, by disease. 



5. Near about six months to nine mouths. 



12. I had something hke 2 or 3 per cent, die when I first commenced inocidation ; 

 but since I do not remember seeing any ; but I generally jjut an incision or knife cut in 

 tlie rump, and roll up a little tow with Venice turpentine in it. This caused the wound 

 to run, and the swelling to cease. As long as the swelling don't stop the passage, the 

 beast recovers. 



13. The result of inoculation is tliat pleuro-pneumouia lias finally left oiu- herd, and our 



cattle are in a fine liealthy state. 



14. I believe any cattle tliat were properly inoculated are not exposed to infection ; and 



more than that, I believe in vaccination before inoculation, and that it can be carried 

 out as well as inoculation, among small, quiet herds. I have vaccinated some hundreds, 

 and they all take well, and it is nuich liglitcr — no swelling to speak of from vaccination ; 

 but most people don't take the trouble to find out wliat is best. Certainly there is 

 more trouble in vaccinating, but it is by far the best. There is no swelUng to speak of, 

 and it has the same effect. The Government will have to employ qualified men in 

 diUerent parts to look after inoculation, and see it carried out, and 'instruct and help 

 them ; and men who will tuck up their shirt-sleeves, and go into the yards and work, 

 and who kjiow what they are doing. Half the men don't know proper virus when 

 they see it, whether it is good or bad. 



You ask me whether inoculating sliould be made compulsory. My opinion is that it 

 should be made compulsory in all herds M-here disease appears, and that proper men, well 

 ac(iuaiiited with its nature, should be appointed to sec it carried into ell'ect— not men 

 that liavo had no experience. I have tried experiments with virus in all its stages for 

 upwards of three years, on three or four head at a time, and kept them in the paddock, 



