14. I do not consider inoculating of any great use, as some herds adjoiuiug were not 



inoculated, and they seemed to do as well, and have as few deaths as any of the herds 

 that wore inoculated. The cattle were exposed to the disease, hut did not take it. 



15. As far as my experience in inoculation goes I do not think it sufficiently dangerous 

 to pass an Act to oblige any one to inoculate. 



265. 



1. 18Go. 



3. 1,200. 



4. Cattle not diseased when inoculation was perfonned. The loss in the herd was about 

 25 per cent. No cattle showing at the time symptoms of disease were inoculated. 



5. Symptoms of disease existed in the herd for about two months prior to inoculation being 

 had recourse to, aUhough just prior to that event the pcr-ccntage of those showing 

 symptonrs was very much greater than at first. 



12. We cannot decidedly say whether death resulted from the operation or the disease, as 

 the latter existed throughout the herd before the former was perfonned. lu cases of 

 excessive swelling, blood-letting and freely opening the parts where matter lay, were 

 resorted to with satisfactory results. 



13. Shortly after the herd had been inoculated the disease entirely disappeared. It has 

 only made its appearance again among the j'oung cattle. 



15. We are of opinion that such an Act ought to be passed. 



266. 



1. August, 18t35. 



3. 4,500. 



4. Diseased. 10 per cent, showing symptoms. 



5. Fully two months. 



12. I should say only 1 per cent. No means were tried to cure the swellmgs, but we used 

 virus taken from cattle not so much diseased as the virus that was used, when we saw 

 swellings. 



13. Immediately after inoculating, this herd of cattle ceased dying. 



14. That after inoculation, no cattle, in my opinion, take this di.sease. 



15. I most certainly do. 



267. 



1. Fhst time moculated about 1st August, 1863 ; second time, about 1st December, 1863. 



3. 404 head. 



4. About 5 percent, showed disease. 



5. Three years. . • j r 



12. 10 per cent, first time, and 4 per cent, second time. The only means that was tried tor 

 swellings was lancing. 



13. About oO per cent, of the cattle became diseased after being twice inoculated. 



14. As they were both times inoculated by professional men, and considered to be properly 

 inoculated, I consider the inoculation of cattle neither a preventive or a cure. I 

 had twenty-four head reared calves running amongst the diseased cattle in a small 

 paddock, and they were not inoculated, and yet not one of them caught the infection. 



15. Having seen a good many diseased herds, and not having seen any good results from 

 inoculation, I should certainly not recommend an Act to make inoculation compulsory . 



268. 



10. About two years ago my cattle were infected with pleuro-pneumonla and were dying 

 very fast, I had then inoculated, and in a few days after inoculation they ceased 

 dying. The full particulars which you require I am sorry that I am not able to 

 supply you with, as I was not present when the cattle were being inoculated. 



11. I believe that an Act should be passed obliging all who have cattle infected with 

 pleuro-pneumonia to inoculate them. 



269. 



1. 18G4. 



3. 25. 



4. Healthy. 



6. Not diseased at all, 



12. No deaths occurred after inoculation. 



13. No bad symptoms appeared. 



14. ]\Iy opinion is that if inoculated before diseased, that it is a preventive of the disease ; 

 also, if only slightly diseased, if inoculated they can be cured. My opinion is formed 

 not from the few that I had done of my own, but from having seen other cattle 

 inoculated in great numbers on the adjoining station. 



15. I do. 



