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 12. 



I. April, 1865. 



3. 500. 



4. Good order. 



5. About (more than) twelve monthfl. 



6. 75 per cent. 



7. Between the years 1856 and 1857. 



8. About 100. 



9. Low condition on acco\mt of drought. 



10. Inocidatiou sliould be performed prior to the first appearance of the disease, and not 



afterwards. 



11. Such an Act should not be passed. 



13. 



1. No disease ever existed in this herd. 



3. About 2,000. 



4. Never diseased. 



9. Healthy. 



10. Having never experienced any disease in the herd, no opinion can be formed of the 



benefit or the contrary of inoculation. 



11. I have had no occasion to observe the effects of inoculation, and cannot therefore, with 



any confidence, express any opinion on the subject. 



14. 



1. November, 1865. 



3. About 1,600. 



4. Very poor. 



5. Until the spring of 1868. 



6. I should tliink 70 per cent. 



7. One now and then up to February, 1869. 



8. About 600. 



9. Looking very well. 



10. Since May, 1865, we have lost about 1,200 head ; about half that number by disease, 

 the othei-s by droughts. "When we first saw the disease, we cleared a paddock for an 

 hospital, and as we saw any sick we put them in, and as they died we burned them ; 

 but all to no purpose — it got through the whole herd. We sometimes bled them, but 

 I cannot say with any benefit. It appeared worst in spring and fall. Very strange, the 

 next station they scarcely saw it. 



II. If ever it was to show in our cattle again, would certainly inoculate. 



15. 



1. October, 1863. 



3. 500 head. 



4. Some fat, remainder in the best condition. 



5. Not more than fourteen or fifteen days after discovered. 



6. Only five head. 



7. Early in November, 1863. 



8. All cattle (viz., the five above mentioned) discovered to have the infection were imme- 



diately killed, and the carcasses carefully burnt. 



9. Healthy- 



10. I found no appearance of the infection after I killed the five head of cattle. There 



were other cattle running in the same paddock. They were killed for beef, and not 

 the slightest trace of the infection coidd be found. The five head of cattle were killed 

 during the first stage of the infection. I believe if I had not killed these five head in 

 time, the infection would have spread through the whole herd. 



11. I do not. I have known as much as 12 per cent, of cattle to be lost through inoculation. 



I believe it is far better to kill the infected beast at once ; but perhaps my remarks may 

 not apply to up-country owners, who have not such an oi^portunity as we have along the 

 coast, of watching cattle not in enclosed paddocks. 



16. 



1. March, 1865. 

 3. 250. 



5. One year. 



6. I forget now. 



7. In 1866. 

 9. Healthy. 



]1. I do iiot believe in inoculation at all. I bchcve that inoculation would spread the 

 disease. 



