86 

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1. 1862. 



3. 500 at date of commencement of disease. 



4. Good condition. 



5. Between five and six months. 



6. 30 per cent. 



7. 1863. 



8. 150. 



9. Good health. 



10. Where cattle are inoculated as soon as the disease appears, it will in my opinion save 

 many that have the disease upon them. 



11. I approve of inoculation, as what cattle I inoculated that were not diseased were not 

 the least affected although running with my diseased cattle. I had twelve working 

 bullocks, one of which became diseased which I shot, the other eleven I inoculated ; 

 they did not afterwards show any symptoms of the disease, and have been in a healthy 

 state since. Parties having infected cattle I woidd oblige to inoculate, as I am sure it 

 prevents the disease from spreading. 



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I. The disease broke out about Mav, 1866. 



3. 750. 



4. Good condition. 



5. One year. 



6. As far as I can judge about 85 per cent. 



7. July, 1867. 



8. 63 per cent. 



9. Veiy geod. 



no. The disease appeared fii'st on my run in May, 1866, amongst my working buUocks, which 

 must have caught it in the end of February. Within three days from fii'st appearance of 

 disease I found they had nearly all got it, and more than half died. The disease did 

 not appear amongst my herd generally for nearly two months after that — when it 

 suddenly broke out in every part, and totally disappeared in July, 1867. Since then I 

 have not seen a single case. Diu-ing the year of the disease, kangaroos died from it in 

 great numbers ; but, as far as I can judge, no other animals except those and cattle. I 

 am quite certain that the disease was brought by the workers, and that they contracted 

 it in an infected paddock 80 miles from here ; also, that the disease lay dormant 

 in them for more than two months. 



m. I think such an Act most desirable, if it can be properly carried out ; but I do not think 

 it is of any use after the disease has shown itself in the herd — nor, in my opinion, can 

 virus be brought from a distance. The only case, therefore, in which it can be done 

 with certain efficiency, is where an vmcrossable river or some such boundai-y divides the 

 sound cattle from the diseased. Although I did not inoculate my o^^ti herd, I have 

 inoculated a good many cattle belonging to other people with success. I am a great 

 believer in its efficacy. 



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3. About 400. 



9. In perfect health. 



10. Although the disease existed iu the neighbourhood, and some of my neighbours' cattle 



were infected, not a single case of the disease was observed on my farm. Whether my 

 escape was from stopping all communication, or from the cattle feeding on the grass salted 

 by the spray from the sea, or otherwise, I cannot say. 



11. From what I have seen and heard of the trouble, the deaths, and the loss of the season's 



milk by inoculation, I would prefer the loss of 25 per cent, of my dairy herd to 

 inoculation. The Colonial Secretary should have power to stojJ the travelling of cattle, 

 on petition from the inhabitants of a district. 



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1. First seen about Ist March, 1868. 



3. 120 head, having reduced them lately. 



4. Standing breathing very hard, and frothing at the mouth, not feeding at all; some 



that don't froth at mouth die at once. 



5. About thirty days. 



6. About ten or twelve. 



7. I did not see a sick beast on the 1st of April. 



8. In all 27 head, some destroyed at fh'st. 



9. In sound good health. 



10. A great number of cattle are killed by crushing them together in the pen. The strong 

 cattle should be done by themselves ; and tlie early spring, I think, the best time of year. 



II. I consider that there should be some law to make it compulsorj', for the protection of 

 stock in the Colony ; and no stock should be allowed to travel that is infected. 



