48 

 150. 



1. 20th September, 1867. 



3. 7,000 head. 



4. Some diseased. Wc reckoned we lost 5 per cent, after inoculation. 



5. The disease showed two montlis previous to inoculation. 



12. Ahout 1 per cent, deaths caused by excessive swellings. Cut the tail above where 

 it is swollen, if possi])lc, and bleed the beast under the tail, near the root, and scarify' 

 the place swollen, and rub salt into it, to draw the virus awa}'. 



13. After doing about 5,000 the disease began to disappear for a short time, and then 

 occasionally one used to die mitil it disappeared. 



14. I do not think inoculation will prevent cattle from taking the disease, onlj^ they will 

 have it in a milder way. I have seen several take it and recover. It is useless to do 

 it if it is not done with strong virus, and tlie cattle looked after luitil they recover. Had 

 we have turned our cattle on the run, there would have been a great loss in them. If 

 their tails are not cut off, the swelling will get in their spine and kill them. 



1-5. Yes, if done properly. 



151. 



1. April, 186-5. 



3. 500 head. 



4. About 6 per cent. 



5. From December, 1861, to April, 1865. 

 12. No deaths. 



14. Cattle inoculated here never showed disease since. All we can state is, that from 

 December, 1864, to April, 186 J, that is, from the time our cattle were infected to the 

 time of inoculation, wc lost from ^50 to 400 head. 



15. We do. 



152. 



1. About May, 1867. 



3. Ten or eleven hundred. 



4. About 600 were the original herd on the run, in fine condition, and perfectly free from 

 disease. About ^'^OO were store cattle, Ijrouglit on to the run a few weeks previous to 

 moculation, in fair condition, none sliowuig s3'mptoms of disease. 



5. The store cattle were known to have disease among them some six or seven weeks 

 before inoculation. 



12. Two or tln-cc may have died — cannot be sure now— certainly not man}-. No means 



were tried as a cure. 



13. The herd on station appeared to benefit b}- the inoculation as long as they remained on 

 the run, as I doubt if more, or so many as half a dozen died from the disease. Of the 

 store cattle there must have been at least 10 per cent, of deaths on the rmi from the 

 disease. 



14. Some even of the station cattle did die from the disease after proper inoculation. A 

 good many deaths occun-ed among fat cattle being driven to market some months after 

 inoculation. 



15. No, I rather think it too late for inoculation when the disease has made its appeai-ance 

 in a herd. 



153. 



1. About seven years. 



3. 500. 



4. About 3 per cent. 



5. Fourteen days. 



12. Hardly 1 per cent. ; and I think those beasts were affected before inoculating. 



13. Some of tlicm lost their tails. 



14. I never knew a beast take disease after inoculation. 



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154. 



1. June, 1864. 



3. 400 weaner.s. 



4. Disease all through the herd. 



5. Al)Out six months. 



12. About 2 jier cent. Did not try to cure the swelling ; some of their tails dropped oft'. 



13. I thought tlic^ inoculation successful, but on looking through uninoculated cattle, fomid 

 they looked as well as those that were inoculated. 



14. A small lierd of cattle on a neighbour's station were inoculated that were continual!}' 

 mixing with my cattle ; some of them died six months after with the disease. I also 



brought cattle from the that were inoculated some time before startuig ; 



a g(jL)d many died some months after arriving here, ^u'ough the disease. 



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