76 

 270. 



1. February, 1864. 



3. 2,017. 



4. All the h'ird more or less affected. 



5. SjTnptoms noticed two months previous to inoculation. 



1 2. Very few deaths took place. About ^ per cent. 



13. Unsatisfactory. 



14. Almost my next neighbour, Mr. , on station, who also had a 



large herd equally dis lased as mine, and who did not inoculate a beast, I believe got 

 off with fewer d-aths than I did, and tlie disease left his herd just at the same time 

 that it left ours wliieh were inoculated. So that my opinion from practical observa- 

 tion is that inoculation of cattle for " pleuro" is useless. 



15. No. 



271. 



1. My cattle were inoculated in May, 1SG7. 



3. 380. 



4. About 5 per cent, of my cattle showed symptoms of disease when inoculated. 



5. The cattle showed symptoms of disease about two weeks before being inoculated. 



12. Three deaths occurred from excessive swellings caused by the inoculation ; the tails 



were cut off and the animals scored wherever the swelling appeared, but without effect. 



13. I saved a great number of lives by inoculation. 



14. Cattle which have been properly inoculated in my ojjinion are not exposed to the 

 disease. Some of my cattle were diseased when inoculated ; but since the inoculation 

 the disease has finally left the herd. Cattle should be immediately inoculated when 

 disease appears. 



272. 



1. 1803 to 186t. 



3. About 2,000. 



4 About 3 or 4 per cent, showed symptoms. 



5. Nearly all were inoculated before mucli sign of disease. 



12. About J per cent. None tiied. 



13. As the cattle fiittened rapidly, the season being good, we lost only about 100 head, 



14. It is difficult for us to say what effects of the inoculation would have been the season 

 being so fine. One lot turned off a very large number, but although they never showed 

 the slightest sympt(.)ms of disease on starting for market, they were very considerably 

 diseased, as much as 50 per cent., on reaching Sandhurst or the slaughter-yarJs in its 

 neighbourhood, and generally one or two deaths on the road, although any animal 

 showing the least approach to disease was invariably left at home. 



15. Yes. 



273. 



1. 1864. 



3. 1,000, 



4. Bad. About 25 per cent. 



5. About six months. 



12. About two in a hundred. "We tried no remedy to stop it ; not knowing how. 



13. I think by experience that it is a great preventive, by seeing herds that were not 

 inoculated. The loss was far greater by not inoculating— I have known 50 per 

 cent., and after inoculation, by attending to, we did not lose more than 2 per cent. 



14. I have not seen any after inoculation show any symptoms of the disease. My opinion 

 on inoculation is it is bad to inoculate calves when fresh branded— that the calves 

 with the virus in point of tail, swinging their tail about, they strike the brand and 

 the virus inoculates the brand, and I have seen their back-bone fall in through the 

 effects of it. 



15. Yes. 



274. 



1. August, 1864, 



3. 250. 



4. Diseased when inoculated, about 3 per cent. 



5. Six weeks. 



12. About 3 per cent, died, and about 10 per cent, swelled ; used butter of antimony for the 



swelling, with green food, if possible. 



13. Perfectly satisfactory, as I never since had a beast infected with the disease, although 



tliey ran among diseased cattle afterwards. 



14. Neiglibours round me refused to inoculate their cattle when I did, and aftf^rwards were 



forced to do so when they saw that it proved an effectual check in mine, and in all 

 cases it proved an effectual remedy. 



15. Yes ; compulsory, if rerpiired, as some refused to do SO, and kept the disease lingering 



iu the district, to the injury of healthy cattle. 



