Ill 

 161. 



1. July, 1864. 



3. 2,0U0. 



4. Store condition. 



5. Two or three weeks. 



6. 3 to 4 per cent. 



11. We do not consider it requisite that an Act should be passed. 



162. 



3. Seventy. 



10. The above number of cattle run in another direction ; and the disease not having made 

 its appearance there we have not inoculated. They are still free from disease. 



11. I consider that it would be for the general good that an Act shoidd be passed obliging 

 owners of cattle whose herds are infected to inoculate. 



163. 



1. During 1866. 



3. 150 head. 



4. In good condition. 



5. About eighteen months. 



6. 8 or 10 per cent. 



7. About the commencement of 1868. 



8. 4 or 5 per cent, 



9. Healthy. 



10. About half those affected recovered ; but it is very difficult to amve at correct accounts 



on bush runs, and on ovu- run we lose a great number iu diggers' holes. Inoculation 

 answers very well in some instances, with perfectly sound cattle ; but it is certain death 

 to an infected beast. 



11. I think that inoculation should be entirely at the option of the owner. 



164. 



10. Last year (1868) the di>-ease infected this part of this district ; several stock holders 

 lost some c .ttl • by it. Preparations were made for inoculation, but the disease left 

 and I believe all the cattle are now free from it. I think the best way to prevent this 

 and other comi>!aints to which cattle are subject, would be, to let every land-owner up 

 to the amount of 320 acres in the settled districts, piu-chase their pre-emptive right on 

 easy terms — say from 2s. 6d. to 5s. per acre — and be encouraged to fence and improve it. 

 The cattle would then be kept separate from each other, and the disease more easily 

 managed, and the general fare of the country improved, instead of becoming worse 

 every year, as it is now. 



11. I should think that if people found it to their advantage to inoculate they would not 

 require an Act to compel them to do so. 



165. 



3. 200. 



10. Touching the question as to the efficacy of inoculation in this district, there 

 is no imnaediatc appearance of any cattle plague or pleuro-pneumonia in cattle 

 at the present time ; certainly, there have been a gi-eat many cattle dying the last eight 

 months back, bat I attribute it to the scarcity of food (gi-ass), owing to the continued 

 di-ought in this part of the country ; that is the reason of weak cattle taking to 

 ground (foiling down) in a debilitated state. 



11. According to the general decision of the voice of the country. 



166. 



3. 150. 



5. About twelve months. 



6. About 5 per cent. 



7. About two years since. 



8. About twenty head. 



9. Healthy. 

 11. I do not. 



167. 



1. July, 1864. 



3. 1060. 



4. Healthy, and in good condition. 



5. Six months. 



6. About 1 per cent., for the first three months, and in December about 10 per cent. 



7. February, 1865. 



