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1. February let to April 26th, 1868. 



3. 2,600 liead. 



4. Some had the disease, but I could not say how many. 



5. I commenced inoculating as soon as ever I savr the disease amongst them ; I began in 



February Ist, and left off April 16th, 1868. 



12. I lost a great number of cattle from the swelling, say ten in the hundred ; I never did 

 anything with them after I inoculated them, I just let them take their chance, except 

 any favourite ones, for I found getting them out of the bush and putting them in the 

 crushing bail did them more harm than dressing them ; cattle don't want knocking 

 about after they are inoculated. 



13. We never had the disease very badly in our herd ; all our neighbours around us had 



it before it showed itself in our cattle. I think that inoculating cattle is a great thing, 

 and a preventative from the disease. 



14. I will give you the way that I have inoculated my cattle. I first of aU get my cattle 

 in, draft them as near one size as possible, so that the large ones and small ones are 

 not put into the crushing pen together. I then put one man with a pair of shears to 

 cut the hair from the side of the tail ; I have another man or boy with a basin, with a 

 number of pieces of wool setons about an inch long, with a knot at one end soaking in 

 the basin in the virus ; I always use two needles to that. 



15. I do think so. 



6. 



1. 625 head ; this was in March 26th, in 1864. 



5. Five months before we commenced ; in two months after we inoculated, the disease 

 disappeared, and I have not seen a diseased beast on tlio run since. 



12. I can safely say that we did not have over ten head die, after they were inociUated 

 from swelling ; we simplify the remedy together with tar and turpentine. 



13. Positively a preventive of disease. 



14. The system that I used was as follows : — Any cattle that were infected with the disease 

 we did not inoculate them, because if we did so it would not prevent them from dying ; 

 but any cattle tliat did not show only a slight symptom of the disease, those cattle 

 may be inoculated with safety, the reason why I say so is, because I proved it; I 

 inoculated cattle that were infected with the disease, strong, and it did not prevent 

 them from dyiug. 



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14. I received your letter concerning the pleuro-pneumonia in cattle. It broke out in some 

 of mine twelve months ago, and those that took it, I found no remedy but to bleed 

 them severely. I had one very fine ox that took it, and I put him in a paddock by 

 himself ; some time after I got two fine springing cows which I turned into the paddock 

 with him for convenience ; in a few weeks I also found them to have the disease. My 

 son went and got some stuff and inoculated all that I had, and ever since that time I 

 have seen no signs of the pleuro in cattle. I think that if inoculation was made 

 compulsory in all herds tlu-oughout the Colony, that pleiu'O-pneumonia would die away 

 from our shore. 



8. 



1. loth April, 1868. 



3. 500. 



4. A few showing symptoms — say 2 per cent. 



5. Supposed to have taken infection on road traveUiug down from Queensland ; say from 



five to seven weeks. 



12. No deaths from swellings. 



13. After inoculation the cattle ceased dying from pleuro, and only a few that we think had 

 taken the disease previously died — from six to eight head. 



14. I fully believe inoculation to be a preventative, but not a cure. I think if cattle are 



properly inoculated with good virus before infection, that they do not take the disease. 

 There are now very few, if any, symptoms in the herd — not i per cent, in 4,500 

 head ; and I firmly believe that there is not a herd in this district that is totally free 

 from pleuro in a more or less degree. The cattle are always liable to infection from 

 travelling stock, where there is a road through the run, if nninoculated. 



15. I think that if inocidation were made compulsory in all herds, the disease would 

 eventually die out ; and all the young stock shoidd be inoculated at time of branding 

 or weaning. 



