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 APPENDIX C. 



1. 



1. Not infected. 



3. 4,000. 



4. Healthy, thriving. 



6. There may he 1 per cent, on uninoculated cattle. 



7. I believe there is no herd entirely free from ploiiro iu this district, in a more or less 

 degree. 



8. 2^ per cent, is generally allowed on a herd, unless speying, -when 5 per cent, on cows 



spcyed. 



9. Thriving and healthy, generally. 



10. I think that pleuro exists in some degree in almost every herd, especially -where a road 

 passes through the run. Uninoculated arc always subject to infection from travelling 

 stocli, especially from Queensland. Symptoms of pleuro will appear at times from no 

 apparent reason whatever. 



11. I think that if inoculation were made compulsory in all herds, the disease would 

 eventually die out ; and all the young stock should be inoculated at time of branding 

 or weaning. 



2. 



1. January, 1868. 

 3. About 3,000. 



5. About six months. 



7. July, 1868. 



8. I should think about -100. 



9. Our cattle are quite free from the disease. 

 11. I do think so. 



3. 



10. In answer to your circular of April, 1869, I beg to say that though I am and have 

 been owner of "i::are than 200 head of cattle for more than tliree years, I know nothing 

 at all about inoculation. I breed very few indeed, but buy about 1,000 store cattle 

 each year. I should not give a shilling a head more for stores on account of their 

 being inoculated. I have bought mobs knowing them to be slightly infected, but am 

 not afraid of its spreading among healthy cattle. Every year I lose a few both station 

 bred and stores, and among the latter some that have lost their tails by inoculation. 

 It is my opinion that pleuro has died out here, and will never flourish again. I am 

 sorry I can give you so little information on this matter. 



Since writing the foregoing I have got all the information I can from my overseer. He is 

 a man of few words, and not fond of writing, but he knows more of the subject than I 

 do. I enclose his answers to my questions taken from your circidar. I don't think 

 his opinion quite coincides with mine, but it may be worth more. 



4. 



10. Your circidar of the 18th of April was duly received by me, and, iu reply, I beg to 

 inform you that I am not the owner of 200 head of cattle ; but being possessed of a 

 small herd, I deem it my duty, as the question at issue (I mean pleuro -pneimionia, in 

 cattle) is of such vital importance to the Colony in general, to offer my himiblc opinion, 

 coupled with a few remarks on the subject : — Firstly then : Some four years ago, I think, 

 when the disease first broke out in my immediate neighbourhood, an adjoining neigh- 

 bom- of mine had a nice little herd of cattle, say some seventy or eighty head. The disease 

 was taken by two or three of them, I believe, when he set to work and, I beheve, inoculated 

 the whole herd. What was the consequence ? Why the most of his cattle died, and 

 strange to say that, although his cattle were almost daOy running with mine, I never 

 lost but one cow, and I am not sure that she died from the effects of pleuro, as she got 

 a bad fall some days previous to her death, and was heavy in calf, and I neither then 

 nor since have ever inoculated any of my cattle. I knew another poor man, not far 

 distant, who only had a team of bullocks. He, like my other neighbour, as soon as the 

 disease appeared, got his team inoculated. The consequence was, he lost them all but 



* The number in the middle of the pacre denotes the number of the Retuni,— that ou the left hand 

 margin, the number of the Question to which the Answer is given. 



