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10. From personal obscrvalion, I believe that when cattle liayc plenty of room and are not 

 disturbed by much camping, driving, or yarding, pleuro-pneumonia will kill very few ; 

 it was only the store cattle that wei-e lieriled that sufl'cred much loss on this run. The 

 cattle belonging to tlio run escaped with very few deaths, and immediately the store cattle 

 ceased to be herded and were turned loose on the run the disease commenced to 

 decrease and there were very few deaths. Since 1865 the herd has been very healthy 

 and free from disease. I object to inoculation, because I have noticed deaths increase 

 from the camping, yarding, and driving of cattle. The great objection to inoculation 

 is, that when cattle are infected they want peace, rest, and quietness ; they should not 

 be driven, camped, yarded, or worked in any way. If you inoculate, you have to camp, 

 drive, and yard cattle — even force them into a crush, which all tends to spread the 

 disease and will add greatly to the deaths. I have seen herds inoculated, and herds 

 left in peace that were infected ; and I believe there were not half the number of 

 deaths amongst the cattle that were not inoculated or disturbed that there were in 

 those inoculated. 



15. I think it would be most injurious to compel owners to inoculate cattle that are infected 

 with pleuro, because you hasten the action of the disease and make it more virulent by 

 the virus ; by yarding and knocking about the cattle you cause many more to get the 

 disease than other wise would,and I feel sure you greatly increase thereby the per-eentage 

 of deaths. 1 he only possible way inoculation could be advisable or serviceable would 

 be to inoculate before any of the herd were infected — and how then could virus be 

 obtained ? I therefore consider that there is no need for such an Act, and it would 

 be most injurious in its effects. 



111. 



10. There are only two persons in my district who have had cattle affected with the 



disease— one , the other . These persons had their iew head inoculated, 



the operator being . This person refuses to give the information retpiired in 



these documents, therefore I must refer you to him. 



112. 



I. On or about 1st December. 



4. They were in a state of disease, dying one after another. 



5. From three to foiir months. 



6. 4 per cent. 



7. About the 1 st April, when all was considered safe. 



8. About twelve head. 



9. Healthy and thriving. 



11. I should recommend an Act to be passed for all cattle to he inoculated in each district 

 •wherever the disease breaks out, by a competent person, as it is contagious. 



113. 



1. Saw no symjitoms of infection. 



3. 460 head. 



4. No infection. 



5. No disease was in this herd. 



6. None. 



9. Strong, fat, and healthy. 



10. That no disease was in this herd I attribute to the fact that the herd is only a small 

 isolated one, running on a sheep station, and not intermixed with any of adjacent herds. 

 I consider that pleuro-pneumonia is decidedly infectious, and that if cattle are properly 

 inoculated before showing symptoms of the" disease, that it will prevent them being- 

 affected by it. 



II. If it is an Act made in a careful manner, and one that can be carried out effectually, I 



say yes. 



114. 



1. Summer and autumn of 1864. 



3. 800 inoculated; about 1,000 on the nm. 



4. To appearance healthy, but in rather poor condition, that is, the breeding cattle. 

 6. About six months. 



6. 10 per cent. ; by which I mean that from eighty to 100 were sometimes sick on the 

 run at once. 



7. End of April, 1864. 



8. At a guess, before and after inoculation, 300. 



9. Healthy ; no symptom of disease has ever appeared since. 



