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burnt ..off. Further, Government maintain a large 

 veterinary staff, and veterinary hospitals are now 

 within the reach of most cattle owners, while pre- 

 ventive inoculation for rinderpest, black quarter and 

 haemorrhagic septicaemia has now been organised on 

 a large scale. Such measures minimise the loss from 

 epizootic diseases, but the risks from this source are 

 serious. It is probable that in time it will be possible 

 for the veterinary authorities to obtain earlier informa- 

 tion of outbreaks of cattle disease and to secure more 

 active support from the people. This will be all to 

 the good ; but so long as Hindu sentiment prevents 

 the adoption of measures against cattle disease which 

 have proved effective in other countries, the fear of 

 cattle disease will always remain a nightmare to the 

 cattle owner. 



The cow-keepers round Karachi and the buffalo- 

 keepers of the Charotar (Gujarat) are experts at 

 feeding milch animals. In parts of Sholapur and 

 Satara the Khillari and Krishna valley cattle are 

 carefully fed ; but over most of the Bombay Presi- 

 dency the feeding and treatment of cattle are very 

 defective. This is due in great measure to the 

 fact that the profits from underbred, nondescript 

 cattle are very small at the best, and all that the 

 average cultivator aims at is to get some slight return 

 in this respect from a minimum of effort and expendi- 

 ture. 



It has already been noted that the religious observ- 

 ances of the Hindus with regard to cattle are a serious 



