77 

 275. 



1. May. 1867. 



3. About --',000. 



4. C;ittlc diseased, about 5 por cent, showing symptoms. 



5. Three weeks, or thereabouts. 



12. Four or five died from swelling in the tail; cut off a joint or two, which caused it to 



bleed, which proved an ( flVetual remedy. 



13. Losses, on the whole, about 5 per cent. Those were chiefly very bad at time of inocu- 

 lation. 



14. Cattle properly inoculated previous to having the disease were all right. I think it 



very little use to inoculate cattle that are badly affected. 

 1). Yes. 



276. 



1. I forget. 



3. About 120. 



4. Nine or ten diseased before inoculation ; of these five were very bad, could scarcely walk, 

 but all recovered within a month ; none died after inoculation. 



/>. Three or four were a moutli, and some more, but all recovered. 



12. None died ; even some that could scarcely walk before inoculation recovered, to my 



surprise, in a very short time. 



13. Very good. 



14. I believe inoculation was the best thing that could be done at the time the disease 



•was raging. I had several die before I knew what means to take, but none after. I 

 should advise all cattle to be inocidated i^s soon as calved, if possible, for better 

 judges than me consider it would prevent the pleiu-o. I know it is a sure cure, but 

 prevention is better than cure. 



15. I do ; with proper instructions how to use the virus, although it acted well with mine in 

 the way it was used. I do not know how long it would keep fit for use, or if there is 

 any better way of using it. 



277. 



1. First symptoms of disease in September, I860. 



3. 390. 



4. In good condition. 

 B. Three months. 



6. 8 per cent. 



7. From date of inoculation till finally left, five weeks. 



8. Eighteen. 



9. Free from disease. 



12. By attending to the cattle after inoculation I don't believe that 1 per cent, would die. 

 As soon as swelling takes place on tlie tail where the vii-us is put in, cut imtil the 

 blood runs freely. 



10. I consider every one ought to inoculate for their own benefit, without compulsion. 



278. 



1. Mav, 1867. 



3. 150" head. 



4. Some of the cattle were diseased when inoculated. 



5. Disease existed about twenty-one days. 



6. Abe ut 5 per cent. 



7. The disease had finally left the herd in one month. 



8. Only three deaths occurred to my knowledge, 

 y. Cattle are perfectly free from disease. 



11. I do consider that au Act should be passed compelling these whose cattle are diseased 

 to inoculate them. 



279. 



1. 3rd December, 1867. 



3. .516 ; in two lots— one of about 96, the other of about 420. 



4. The 96 were quite free from disease, and had never been in contact with diseased cattle, 



or off the Hun, and about 60 per cent, of the larger lot api)earcd to be 



affected. The latter were brought on the run in November, and the disease broke out 

 on the road about six weeks previously. 



5. About nine weeks. 



6. The lung was taken for the first lot of cattle from a full grown animal, in an 

 advanced stage of the disease, the best poition of the lung being selected. For the 

 420 lot the virus was taken from a young 1 east al)out 10 months old, in an early stage 

 of the disease. The lung was about four tunes its nat^n-al size, of a greyish blue color, 

 and when cut, showed recent marbling throughout, and was smchargcd with a large 

 quantity of clean pure lymph. 



