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one. I could enumerate several similar cases. Another adjoining neighbour, whose 

 cattle were not diseased, inoculated his team of bullocks, but the virus was bad, and did 

 not take (and, I think, lucky for him it did not), for I did not hear that he lost any 

 then or since with the disease. And now, with regard to my opinion of introducing a 

 measure for making inoculation compulsory, I think it woidd be both cruel and absurd; 

 for what man, I would ask, in this country or any other, having inoculated a beast 

 wliich recovered, is in a position to prove that that beast would not have recovered 

 equally as well if it had not been inoculated P This is a question which, I think, 

 demands the most serious consideration before passing any such measure. With these 

 few remarks, I remain, &c. 



5. 



10. In reply to your htter I beg to state I never inoculated any cattle, as T pm-chase store 

 cattle. They were inoculated before getting them, therefore I cannot give any infor- 

 mation as to its result. I am sorry to say I cannot give any opinion as to obliging 

 owners whose cattle are infected to inocitlate them. 



6. 



10. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your circular of 19th ultimo, together with enclosed 

 forms, but instead of attempting to fill up the latter by guess work, will try and give 

 you some idea of the pleuro in this immediate district, in lieu. \Yhen I left, about 

 three years since, to reside iu this locality, I found several of the small farmers here 

 inoculating with beneficial result, though iu some few cases deaths occurred consequent 

 on inflammation caused by the operation. For some months subsequent the disease 

 disappeared, and did not reappear till brought hither by up-country cattle purchased at 

 the sale yards. It is singular that each lot of cattle brought here affected with the 

 disease disseminated it in a different way, and with different results. From contact 

 with some, the result proved always fatal to cattle not before affected ; with others, the 

 effect was the cough, mucus from nose, and fever, the result being ultimate recovery, 

 while other lots merely disseminated the cougli alone. Since my sojourn here, people 

 have ceased to inocula'te, though the pleuro still exists. I am of opinion that, so long as 

 no cattle are brought here from the up-country districts, the disease, though its pre- 

 sence is still perceptible, wiU assume no active form, but will ultimately die out. You 

 will now hear the dry cough which betokens the presence of the disease ; but as long as 

 no febrile symptoms are apparent, people heed it little. Whenever fever presented 

 itself as a concomitant, I have found profuse bleedings at short intervals (tOl the animal 

 commences eating) the best remedy. I have found no beast taking the disease with 

 fever twice affected. I am of opinion that the disease, as far as my own experience 

 teaches, is alone propagated by contact, the fact being that I purchased strange cattle 

 and have the pleuro, while my immediate neighbours on every side who chd not pur- 

 chase have never had it. I merely own about 120 head of cattle, and as om- avocations 

 here are more agricultural than grazing, I regret to say I have not made myself better 

 acquainted with tins disease and its various phases. I however wiU refer you to a 



gentleman, resident at , who has had a great deal of painful experience in both 



pleuro and the Cumberland disease, who infomued me, about a week ago, that he had 

 quite mastered both diseases with sidphur fumes. I feel assured, if you will apply to 

 him, he wiU aflbrd you much useful information. 



7. 



1. About 300 that were not inoculated died. 



3. About 3,000. 



4. Separated from the herd, coat standing, much coughing, and groaning. 



5. About six months. 



6. One-tenth. 



7. Cannot say. 



8. About 300. 



9. In good health. 



10. Not any. 



11. Cannot form an opinion. 



8. 



1. 186t. 



3. Above 7,000 altogether. 



4. Good condition — some fat. 



5. Two years bad — never entirely left. 

 G. Cannot say. 



