49 

 155. 



1. No note made of date. 



3. About 1,500 head. 



4. Slifflitly diseased ; can't state pcr-centage. 



5. Can't say. 



12. A few died, but can't state what per-centagc. 



13. All those inoculated seemed to fatten more quickly and thrive better after getting over 

 the effects of the inoculation. 



14. I noticed some cattle that had been inoculated and had lost the brush, some time after- 

 wards take the disease and die from it. 



15. I do not consider that such an Act would have any good effect, but the contrary. 



156. 



1. June, 1865. 



3. About 3,500. 



4. In store cattle pm-chased, about 20 per cent. ; in original herd, I should think about 



6 per cent. 



5. About six or eight weeks. 



12. In some cases the tail swelled to a great size ; very few suffered severely, — about 2 per 

 cent, may have died, not more, if that. In the event of the swellings btcoming 

 excessive, I at once chopped the tail off, which always had a beneficial effect. 



13. Most effective,— it was with me a gix-.at success ; neighbourmg cattle, uninoculatcd, 



were dying in large numbers, my herds being healthy. 



14. I had a good opportunity of testing the efficacy of inoculation. Just at the time of 

 pleuro-pneumonia breaking out in this district I purchased 900 bead of store cattle, 

 and placed them on a clean run, forty miles from my original herd, no other stock being 

 on that run ; th^y were infected, and were dying at the rate of ten to fifteen per diem ; 

 six weeks after inoculating I had no deaths from pleuro, and the disease entirely- 

 disappeared ; they afterwards mixed with some diseased herds, but did not suffer. 

 I have every faith in inoculation, if properly and carefuUy performed, as a preventive, 

 but not as a cure for plem-o-pneumonia. 



15. I consider if an Act were passed making it compulsory to all cattle-owners, on appear- 

 ance of pleuropneumonia in their herds, to at once inoculate, that it would decidedly 

 tend to exterminate the disease. 



157. 



1. January, ISG 4. 



3. 520. 



4. About 5 per cent, showing sj-mptoms. 



5. About two months. 



12. Yes, 1 per cent. 



13. No cattle on the station have shown symptoms of the disease since the inoculation. 



14. I have reason to believe that the lives of a number of the above cattle were saved by 

 inoculation. Owners of neighbouring herds who were later in inoculating lost 

 more than I did. About a moiith after inoculation the cattle were brought up and 

 the thread drawn fi'om the wound. 



15. Yes. 



158. 



1. July, 1861. 



3. 150. 



4. In good condition, very few of them sbowing any symptoms of disease ; about 1 pel- 

 cent. 



5. About ten months. 



12. About ten died out of the 150 inoculated. Tried no means to save those ten as they 



were in the bush. 



13. With the small number I inoculated, I consider the result satisfactorj-. 



14. I have only to state, that at the time we inoculated those few we had about 300 head 

 which were not inoculated, and the per-eentnge of deaths was not as much as in 

 the inoculated; at the same time, I believe that the disease was leaving the run, in 

 fact it never was very bad on this station. I can only account for that fact 

 through its being situate rather in the back country. 



15. Yes. 



159. 



1. 20 January, 1SG5. 



3. 210 head. 



4. And about 20 per cent. 



5. About six weeks. 



12. Deaths, about 5 per cent. By attending and fomenting the swelling until it became 

 ripe for lancing. 

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