109 



7. About March, 18G4. 



8. 1 should think nearly 1 ,000 liCcad. 



9. Api)arcatly healthy. 



10. I have now a herd of ahout 2,ri00. I d(ui't think tlic half of them arc inrculatcd cattle, 

 having bought .several times since. Most are inoculated, but some few arc not, and 

 the increase has not been done since. 



11. I am decidedly in favour of inoculation. 



152. 



1. No infection or disease. 

 11. I am of opinion that such an Act would be the cause of the disease spreading to a far 

 greater c.\tent than if it were left to its natmal course. 



153. 



I. First discovered about lOtli May, 18GS, at , supposed to have been caused by a 



diseased beast dying in the neighbourhood, lirought on to the station from by 



a party driving infected cattle to the to fatten. 



3. ] ,50 I head. 



4. Sound and healthy, and in good store condition. 



5. Never known to exist before 19:b May, 1868. 



6. About five head altogether out of the whole herd; they were all in the same neighbour- 



hood ; I lind them all killed, and the carcases bm-nt within a few days after the disease 

 first made its appearance. 



7. I believe immediately those cattle were killed. 



8. I believe one head— the first beast that was discovered, but which could not afterwards 

 be found. Cattle affected with the disease generally go into a scrub to die, and I 

 suppose this did. 



9. Healthy, according to appearance. 



10. I think the prompt measures I adopted in immediately killing and burning the diseased 

 beasts stopped the further progress of the disease. I also think that beasts on a rmi 

 where grass is scarce, are not so likely to be aftected b}' contagion, as when running 

 in paddocks where the grass is thicker and more solid and contiguousi. I should have 

 inoculated the cattle on the above runs, had I been able to obtain virus within a 

 reasonable distance. In momitainous runs, also in these districts, it is impossible to 

 get in all your cattle in winter months — when it is very prejudicial to luuit them 

 about, and therefore the operation could only be performed in about eight months of 

 the year. 



11. I consider that cattle should, if possible, be inoculated previovisly to infection, as I 



doubt whether it is useful afterwards,— but as all the cattle on a run, or in a paddock, 

 do not take it at the same time, an obligatory Act should be pas-ed to compel inocula- 

 tion as soon as discovered — also another to prevent diseased cattle travelling. It would 

 be advisable that owners of cattle in the neighbourhood of diseased runs sboidd 

 inoculate at same time as the owners of diseased runs. 



154. 



1. 1863. 



3. Between two and three himdred. 



G. About si.x months. 



fi. All aff'ected more or less, but some not visible. 



7. 1864. 



8. Between four and five hundred. 



9. All looking well and health}'. 



10. Plenty of grass and water, and everything looking well 



155. 



1. November, 1864. 



3. About 1,000 head mixed cattle. 



4. Healthy, and in fair condition, considering the drought that season. 



5. About six months, or till May, I860. 



6. About i per cent. 



7. May, IS60. 



8. About twenty head. 



9. Healthy, and in fair condition. 



10. A young herd, having sold all my old stock two years ago — in 1866. 



II. Not without the disease again makes its appearance, and net then if the cattle arc 

 infected. 



