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12. Odd ones died ; used tar. 



13. Firmly believe I lost more by inoculation than if I had left it alone. 

 It. Eefer to question 13. 



15. Decidedly not. 



122. 



1. 18G5. 



3. From 300 to 100 head. 



4. Diseased, about 20 per cent. 



5. About three months. 



12. One only. The swelling commenced in the point of the tail slowly -working upwards ; 



and the' half of the tail was cut otf, and the bullock recovered shortly after. 



13. The disease left the herd shortly after they were inoculated. 



14. I approve of cattle being inoculated twice within six months. 



15. Yes. 



123. 



1. August, 1866. 



3. About 1,200. 



4. At the time of inoculation, the disease was begmnmg to show shghtly on the run ; 1 



had not seen more than a dozen dead, and those chiefly working bullocks ; about 

 twenty head showed decided symptoms of the disease. 



5. The disease had not shown itself on the run more than three weeks before the cattle 



were inoculated ; at first only the working bullocks were atfectcd. 



12. No deaths were observed from any of these causes, although some might have occurred 

 unseen, since I let all the cattle go as soon as they were inoculated, in order to avoid 

 the knocking about which would be occasioned by herding or paddocking cattle at that 

 time of year. 



13. So far as" I can judge, the cattle were saved from the disease by inoculation, as our 

 losses were not more than 5 per cent, from the disease, which carried off, it is supposed, 

 50 per cent, on run, which adjoins . 



14. I don't consider it certain that inoculation was the sole cause of the cattle 



escaping the disease, since the disease about that time moderated generally all over this 

 neighbo^urhood, and some uninoculated herds escaped pretty well, and it is hard to 

 make any very accurate observation on any herd running in unenclosed land ; milkers 

 and working bullocks are the most easily experimented on, as one sees them every day. 

 The former I did not inoculate, and I think a larger proportion of the working bullocks 

 (twenty-four); five were first attacked, and three died, and two recovered, these were 

 bled freely, and also inocidated ; the (nineteen) other bullocks were also inoculated, 

 but none 'died ; they were at very hard work all the time, rather low in condition, and 

 were worked as usual immediately after inoculation. Inoculation, in my opinion, can 

 do cattle no harm, and is not an expensive nor troublesome operation, which the 

 evidence, as far as it goes, is in favour of its being a protection against the disease, 

 which is no doubt an infectious one, since it was introduced into this district by teams 

 of carriers' bullocks from down the country. 



15. An Act compelling owners of diseased herds to inoculate would probably prevent the 



spread of infection ; but if the Act provided for compulsory destruction of diseased 

 cattle, it would be diiScidt to enforce it, and very hard on bullock-drivers in particular. 



124. 



1. At various times, from April, 1866. 



3. Over 5,000 head. 



4. Cannot say. 



5. Cannot say. 



12. A great many — cutting off tails — which did not appear to be much use. 



14. Many of the cattle took the disease after inocidation. Inoculation was certainly very 

 carefully performed by myself, by virus selected also by myself. I doubt the advisabihty 

 of knoc'king a herd about'for the sake of inoculation in a mountainous country hke this, 

 where there are running streams, if large mobs never camp together, but where store 

 cattle or large mobs are put together I think it desirable. I give an instance. I went to 



to approve of a mob of store cattle in 1867, which I had previously 



bought, with an odd beast seen diseased in one corner of the run. "Wlien I arrived there, 

 the cattle not having been inoculated, were dying at the rate of 2 per cent, a, day. I 

 threatened to throw up the purchase if they were not inoculated and free of risk. I at 

 once inoculated, and the death rate the second day after inoculation sensibly diminished, 

 until in about Jive days it ceased altogether; but a great number of swellings occurred, 

 which caused me to think that the cattle were all more or less diseased, and that by 



