88 

 42. 



1. About the 20tli Marcli, 1864. 



3. 3,000. 



4. Fair condition. 



5. About fourteen or fifteen months before it entirely left the herd. 



6. I believe that in nearly every beast on the run, and I may say every beast that we 

 killed afterwards for station use, the lungs showed that it had been diseased. 



7. Abiut June, 1865. 



8. From 300 to 500. 



9. Good. 



10. Where this and the Runs adjoin the cattle of the two stations intermix. The 



disease made its appearance simultaneously in the two herds. The people 



inoculated their herd soon afterwards, and they left off dying they very naturally 

 attributing it to inoculation ; however, I did not inoculate, and my cattle on that side 

 of the run left off dying at the very same time, and I have not seen any signs of the 

 disease among them since. When I state that the disease existed among the herd 

 fourteen or fifteen months, I should also state that after the first five or six months 

 there were only odd beasts to be noticed, and I have not seen a beast with it for 

 certaiidy three years on the run. 



11. Decidedly not. 



43. 



I. Impossible to say. 



3. About 13,000 head. 



4. Good condition. 



5. Should say about twelve months. 



6. Should say from 50 to 75 per cent. 



7. Impossible to say. 



8. Ditto. 



9. Good. 



10. It is impossible for any one to say for certain, in herds that are perhaps only miistered 



once in six months, anything hke the exact date the disease makes its appearance, or 

 how long it existed ; but should say in the cattle mentioned above, that from the time 

 of its being noticed till it disappeared woidd be about twelve months. You must 

 remember this is a breeding herd, which would account for its lingering such a length 

 of time ; it seems to rage for a few weeks, and then gradually decrease. 



11. I would on no account recommend making inoculation compulsory, for the very reason 



that in many instances by the time it became known, and the cattle could be mustered, 

 it would, in all probabihty, have run its course to a great extent. I am quite wilHng to 

 allow, from what I have seen in other herds inoculated, that it is a preventive against 

 the disease, but of no earthly use to an infected beast. 



44. 



1. About January and February, 1866. 



3. About 3,500. 



4. In good condition. 



5. Since infection it has never thoroughly left the herd, but the deaths from it have 



materially diminished since the first appearance of the disease. 



6. 99 per cent. 



7. Never. 



8. About 25 per cent., during the eighteen months succeeding infection. 



9. The present state of the cattle is healthy ; but, as in the Gineroi and Bari'aba herds, 99 



per cent, of cattle killed on the station show signs of having had the disease. 

 11. I do not think so, as I have lost a less percentage in the herd uninoculated than in the 

 two herds that I had inoculated. 



46. 



1. No infection on our run. 



3. 1,250. 



4. Not infected at all. 



5. Never existed. 



6. None. 



7. Never was in it. 



8. None. 



9. Quite healthy. 



II. Decidedly not. 



