67 

 230. 



1. 14th November, 18G8. 



3. 200. 



4. Healthy. 2 per cent. 



5. Seven days. 



12. IJ jier cent, died from swelling. In some cases the tails were cut of? above the 

 swelling. When tin; swelling reached tlie rump, the knife was applied to open the 

 part, and it was baflicd with very h( t water. 



13. The result was an entire stoppa,!:;i; of the disease. 



14. I am of opinion that if inoculation is properly done with good virus, free from blood 

 or watery matter, it will entirely put a stop to the disease. In my case sixty milch 

 cows died b^'fore I could persuade the person in charge to inoculate ; since which only 

 four died, and they were attacked before operated upon. Tlie best virus is to be found 

 attached to the inside of the plema, in large patches, very pure avd free fi-om blood. 

 This i-!, I believe, much better than that from the lungs. It is not found in all 

 animals diseased. 



15. I do consider that an Act should be passed to compel persons whose cattle arc infected 

 to moculate immediately, and to burn all bodies of animals tliat die of the disease. 

 This latter should be strictly attended to. 



231. 



1. Latter end of January. 1865. 



3. 800. 



4. Diseased. About 5 per cent, showed symptoms. 



0. Six months. 



12. A few deaths occurred from this cause — perhaps 1 per cent. ; but as I inoculated 

 aboiit sixty crawlers (cattle that ahvaj's stay about the station, milking cows, &c.), first 

 as an experiment, I was prepared, and kept a constant look-out for any that appeared 

 likelj' to swell. My remedy was, cut the tail off above where it was swollen; if 

 extended to the rump, cut tail off at last joint. 



13. The result of inoculation was that in a month after inoculating the herd had discon- 

 tinued dying, and were healthy and thriving, while cattle l)elonging to neighbouring 

 stations that were on the same nm and were not inoculated continued dying for twelve 

 months or more after. 



14. I never saw one beast of ours that had been inoculated with the disease after, but two 

 or three remarkable beasts that I knew 'to have had the disease, and were not inocu- 

 lated, had a relapse of the complaint; and some few that had it and recovered from it 

 never fiittened, nor were of any value after. Immediately after inoculating our cattle, 

 the disease disappeared from them ; but there were herds adjoining, many of which were 

 on oin- nm, that continued dying. And I have known om- stockmen, in collecting, 

 bring home stragglers belonging to neighbours, and the greater part of them took the 

 disease while om- cattle remained perfectly free from it. I would have continued inocu- 

 lating calves at branding, but found a great difficulty in getting virus. I practised it 

 for twelve months after inoculating the herd, and none of the j'oung stock showed 

 disease ; but since discontinuing it, odd young beasts have. 



l->. I consider if an Act was passed rendering inoculation compulsory, it woidd be very 

 beneficial to stockowners generally, and the only means of exterminating the disease. 



232. 



I believe inoculation to be a preventive, but not a ciu-e. If cattle are inoculated properly 

 I am sure it would save 99 per cent. ; if badly done it would destroy more than it 

 would cure. 



233. 



1. In the years 1861, 1862, 1863. 



3. 3,700 head during the years 1S61, 1862, 1S63. 



4. Diseased when inoculated, from twenty to thirty showing synij^toms, and four to five 



dying per week. 



5. About two months. 



12. About 2 per cent, died fi-om the eflFects of inoculation. I tried to cure them by opening 

 the enlargement and dressing it with tar and turpentine, and by taking off the tail 

 above where it had previously fallen off. This method, I believe, saved some of 

 them. 



13. AH symptoms of disease seemed to disappear in about six weeks or two months after 

 inoculation, and I never saw any beast that inoculation had taken effect upon show 

 any sym^jtoms of disease afterwards. 



14. All the cattle that I inoculated after they were done I marked, so that I should know 

 them from the others, until I had finished the whole herd (except five or six) which 

 was about 2,000. After the cattle had thoroughly recovered, and there was no sign of 



