50 



13. The result of inoculation is a cure for the disease if properly attended to ; if not, it is 



death to the cattle. 



14. I have never known cattle to die from the disease if properly inoculated. 



15. I should recommend such an Act to be passed — for all cattle to be inoculated in each 

 district, whenever the disease breaks out in it, by a competent person, as it is con- 

 tagious. 



160. 



1. 1866. 



3. 40. 



4. Twelve diseased when inoculated. 



5. Foiu-teen days. 



12. There were no deaths occurred with me ; the disease showed no symptoms after 

 inoculation. 



14. My cattle were exposed among diseased cattle after inoculation, but were in no way 



affected by it. I am of opinion that all cattle should be inoculated immediately the 

 disease appears in the neighbourhood ; and further, I consider that the virus should 

 be taken from a young beast, and care should be taken that it is not kept too long 

 before iising it. 



15. From my experience among cattle, I am of opinion that all owners of cattle which are 



infected should be obliged to inoculate them immediately. 



161. 



1. 6th December 1867. 



3. 470. 



4. Low in condition ; 50 per cent. 



5. Two years. 



12. 2 per cent. 



13. Cure. 



14. I have not seen any of the cattle, inoculated or uninoculated, since. 



15. I consider it would be a benefit to the coimtry to have an Act passed to compel people 

 to have their cattle inoculated if diseased. 



162. 



1. September, 1867. 



3. 200 head of cattle. 



4. Diseased ; from 5 to 6 per cent. 



5. Eighteen months. 



12. Yes; there were deaths caused by the inoculation, about 3 per cent. Scarifying them 



on the hind quarters and where they showed any swelling. 



13. It banished the disease. 



14. Any cattle that were properly inoculated were not afterwards exposed to the disease. 

 I believe that bleeding in the neck veing will save cattle that are diseased. 



15. I do consider that an Act should be passed to compel owners of cattle to inoculate if 

 their cattle are diseased. 



163. 



1. 1865, 1866, and 1867. 



3. About 2,000 at each inoculation. 



2. Healthy. 



3. Healthy. 



14. No death occurred to my knowledge. 



15. I have never seen any of the inoculated cattle with the disease, although imin- 

 oculated stragglers belonging to others have been occasionally dying among our 

 own cattle. It is almost unnecessary to say that the cattle were, of course, a good 

 deal knocked about, as is alwaj's the case in passing large numbers through a crush. 



14. The rcjdy is partly embodied in that to the foregoing question. On one occasion, 

 running out of virus and having oijy a fuw head of cattle to inoculate, we used the 

 affected part cut from the tails of those already inoculated and exhibiting the rotting 

 sores, passing the needle through it, and then perforating the tails of the sound cattle 

 without the seton being inserted, and we found the result precisely similar to what it 

 was when virus was used and the seton left in. I may add that I consider it highly 

 prejudicial to the success of the operation to run cattle into the yard immediately 

 before they are inoculated. 



15. I am of opinion that owners of cattle will be too much alive to their own interest to 

 neglect inoculation, when there is so much evidence of its being perfectly successful 

 where properly conducted. And as I have, with five men, inoculated 700 head daily, 

 the expense is inconsiderable. However, I believe that until such time as all the 

 cattle, in the Colony ai'c inoculated, pleuropneumonia will never thoroughly disappear. 

 In riding througli an adjoining run lately I saw several diseased cattle, the owners 

 not having as yet adopted inoculation. 



