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12. In only t\vo instances did the tail swell to excess, and then about hnlfcamc away. 

 Six dcatlis only occurrud, and those were very far gone before inoculation. 



13. Very satisfactory; and my cattle after getting well, passed tlirough seveial herds of 



diseased stock while travelling to a back station, but no sign of disease has ever shown 

 amongst them since. 



14. So soon as it is evident that the disease exists in a herd, inoculation should commence. 

 The virus should he taken from a young beast in the first stage of disease. The evils 

 of inoculation I believe to arise either from carelessness or from using virus taken 

 from an old beast in the last stage of disease. 



15. I think it would be advisable to compel owners wh-se stock ai e infected to inoculate 

 them. 



174. 



1. November, 1865. 



3. 700 head. 



4. Very badly diseased ; fully 50 per cent, and one or two dying every day before inocula- 

 tion. 



5. Several months. 



12. Yes ; deaths do occur, about 10 per cent. No means adopted for cure. 



13. Two months after inoculation ; no further deaths occurred of any importance. 



14. To this question not sufHcient notice taken to give a satisfactory reply, but believe 

 inoculation to be beneficial. 



15. We bslieve compxilsory inoculation woiild be a benefit to the country at large. 



175. 



14. I was on the Lachlan in 18nl and 1862 when this disease was taking off thousands of 

 cattle ; I inoculated several herds, and saw many others which had been inoculated by 

 inexperienced people, when much mortalityprevailed, owingtothe ignorance of operators 

 in some cases taking the virus out of dead animals, and in othtrs obtoining it from 

 animals in the last stage, which was wrong, of com se, in both cases, it being too virulent. 

 I have inoculated cattle when fully 5 per centum showed symptoms of disease, and 

 have been told after that the losses through the operation hardly exceeded that. 

 I have used both the milk and butter of a dairy herd highly infected with plcuro with- 

 out detecting any peculiarity. Through an expedience of save- al years I state most 

 positively that inoculation is a preventive to pleuro, and would most strongly recom- 

 mend that the Government biing in a Bill compelling all s'ocldiolders to inoculate 

 their cattle. 



176. 



1. Januarv, 1867, and June, 1867. 



3. 4,000. ■' 



4. Of the above, 2,000 were inoculated before disease showed itself ; 2,C00 when difease 



showed ; about 5 per cent, of diseased cattle. 



5. 2,000 inoculated when there was no disease on run, and 2,000 after disease was known 

 to exist ; two months previously. 



12. 10 per cent, diedofthosi; inoculated in Janua'y, and not 1 per cent, of those done 

 in Jmie from the same cause ; tails were cut off. 



13. The result was most satisfactory in staying disease. 



14. After the cUtle were inoculated in January, to the number of 2,000. No disease was 

 visible for quite a year afterwards, and then only amongst very young calves ; these 

 2,000 never showed symptoms of disease. On the adjoining run the cattle were 

 inoculated in June following, after disease had appeared about two months, being 

 brought there by a neighbour's Cittle which trespassed upon me and were very miich 

 d'seased. Aftcrthcy were inoculated they ceased dying, but for eighteen months after 

 there were a few deaths which I attribute" to the few that were not yarded, or to those 

 that d;d not become inoculated through failure of the proces-. I have lost several 

 cattle from disease, after their tails have been cut off, from the effects of inoculation, 

 and that twelve months after the operation. I cannot account for this, but the instances 

 are very few. Most of the cattle I lost from swelled tails were cows, not one ox in ten. 

 Inoculation prevent jd the cows from breedinginthe season of inoculation ; this was very 

 remarkable. About 1 per cent, of diseased cattle lecover ; but they are never able to 

 travel, but will fatten. I consider the disease endemic, not epidemic. I have had a 

 good deal of experience, and have sought that of others, and I believe the disease may 

 appear, and docs, upon some one part of the run, and may be confined there for some 

 time before it spreads ; but it will go through the who'e herd, and if inoc'ilated before 

 disease appears will show itself in the yoiuig calves. I inoculated 2,000 cattle in 

 January, 1867, before any disease appeared upon my run, and so soon as I could 

 obtain virus, which I did from a few store cattle I pTU'chascd ai d confined in a pud- 

 dock at one corner of my run. These cattle turned out to be diseased; I discovered 

 the fact when they were being driven to my station. Jainiary being a very hot month, 

 1 attribute all the'losses I had to the fact that the cattle were inoculated in the summer 



