91 

 67. 



3. 1,200 head, mixed breeding herd. 



4. Eunniiig on unfcnced ridgy land ; in low condition, after long drought. 



5. Disease has been in the herd now for about five years, off and on. 



6. Percentage has varied according to the state of the season, being always largest in 



dry hot weather, and generally attacking strong young cattle. At the worst periods, 

 the percentage of those attacked was about ten. 



7. Still in it. 



8. About half of those affected have died. The number of cattle affected has been much 



larger on all surrounding stations ; owing, I believe, to the fact that from_ the ridgy 



nature of the country, the cattle on run in small mobs, and in time of 



disease they have never been distm-bed or brought together. 



9. Unaffected. 



10. I had 100 head inoculated on the first appearance of the disease, and within a httle 

 time it left the whole herd and did not reappear for more than a year. I did not 

 resort to inoculation the second time for any, and the disease left the same as at first — 

 coming and going at uncertain irregular intervals ever since, alwai/s appearing in dry 

 hot weather, and wearing off as the drought broke up and the weather cooled. 



11. I do not consider that such an Act should be passed, — at least, until experiments have 



been made, and results ascertained in a much more scientific and definite manner than 

 is usual with stock-owners. I have suffered less from this disease than most of my 

 neighbours who have inoculated ; and no doubt, if I had inoculated on its first appear- 

 ance, and continued to do so on each reappearance, I would now be a stanch advocate 

 of that method of cure. I have not much faith in the method of cvu-e by inoculation ; 

 every cattle-owner takes the virus at all stages of the disease, as you will see by your 

 returns, and all alike declare the efficacy of their methods. I would suggest that a 

 number of cattle should be taken, of various ages and sexes, half of them inoculated 

 and half unmoculated, and all alike uninfected ; isolate them, if possible, on a sheep 

 run, where they would not be affected by cattle outside the paddock, or by diseased 

 cattle having fed over the grass ; turn a'lot of diseased cattle amongst them ; and the 

 result, if closely watched, will go further to prove the efficacy or non-efficacy of 

 inoculation than any number of returns like the present. 



58. 



I. January, 1864. 



3. 1,000. 



4. Loss of appetite ; running at nostrils. 



5. Six months. 



6. 10 per cent. 



7. End of June, 1864. 



8. 9 per cent. 



9. Healthy, but very poor. tj> j • 



10. Scarcity of grass and water, worst disease last summer, 1868 aiid 1869. If diseased 

 cattle were drafted immediately on noticing disease, and kept inclosed in a paddock 

 from the healthv cattle, I believe there would be less loss. 



11. I have not sufficient experience in inoculated cattle, not having seen any, therefore I 



could not give any opinion. 



69. 



1. About August or September, 1863, when plcuro-pueumouia first showed here. 



3. About 2,000. 



4. The cattle were in very good order, and the best generally went off first. 



5. About one year — nothing to speak of after. 



6. By disease, about 25 per cent. 



7. About the latter end of 1864. But I inocidated cattle in December, 1867— all of the 



young cattle, small calves, and so on. 



8. From plcuro-pneimionia, about 500 in six mouths, before inoculation ; very few after. 



9. The present state of cattle — very healthy. 



10. Since inoculation the cattle seem to be doing very well, could not do better, only that 

 feed is scarce ; they seem as healthy as any cattle could be. I have seen no symptoms of 

 disease in this herd since 1865 — only some that had the disease before we inoculated, 

 whicli got over it ; but if you run them they still have the straining cough, but the 

 breed and their increase are not affected by it. 



II. I do believe that an Act should be passed to compel every cattle-holder to inoculate 



where diseases of plem-o-pneumonia shows ; if it had been done sooner, thousands of 

 cattle woiild have been saved. 



