AND MINING RECORD, 



Vol. IV. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901. No. 8. 



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CONTENTS. 



PA^E. 



District Reports ... ... 228 



Veterinary. 



The Rinderpest Outbreak ... 225 



Sugar in Veterinary Obstetrics ... 244 



Agriculture. 



Experimental Farms. Interview 



with an American Expert ... 226 



Manna ... — ••• 227 



Importation of Sugar Cane ... 22'J 



Green Manuring. By Alex. Pardy, 



F.C.S. ... ■ ... - 2-11 



Lucerne for Dairy Cattle ... 249 



PAGE. 



Dairy. 



Modern Dairying ... ■.. 227 



Dairying in Australia (concluded) ... 233 

 Veterinary Departmental Report for 



April, 1901 ... ... 24(3 



Poultry. 



Rearing Chickens in the Spring ... 245 



Miscellaneous. 



Wire Splicing... ... ... 244 



Correspondence. 



Export of Oranges, by F. A. Hathorn 231 



Market Reports ... ... 256 



The Rintierpesi Outbreak. 



THE Principal Veterinary Surgeon 

 gives the following particulars of 

 the outbreak of rinderpest in Sobuza's 

 Location situated in the Umvoti Valley, 

 some twenty miles distant from Grey- 

 town. The disease appeared amongst the 

 cattle of two Natives. As is frequently 

 the case, the first animals to die were 

 supposed to have suffered from gallsick- 

 ness, and it was not until several days 

 later, when an extension of the disease 

 had taken place and several more deaths 

 had occurred, that the significance of the 

 malady was recognised. Advice was then 

 sought from Mr. Koman, a storekeeper, 

 and he considered the matter sufficiently 

 serious to bleed a beast known to have 

 recovered from rinderpest in 1896, and 

 with this blood to inject all the young 



animals at the infected kraal. The cattle 

 of the second kafir had been obtained 

 from the first kafir as lobola ; all (three) 

 have died from the disease. There is no 

 doubt as to the nature of the disease, the 

 symptoms during life and the post- 

 mortem appearances being typical of 

 rinderpest. Immediately on arriving at 

 this decision the veterinary authorities 

 wired the police to form a cordon round 

 the infected area. All animals, with the 

 exception of those to be used for the 

 production of an immunising serum, were 

 destroyed. A veterinary surgeon was 

 stationed on the spot, and the immunisa- 

 tion of the surrounding cattle was at 

 once commenced with a supply of serum 

 which had been preserved, in view of any 

 such possible occurence, since the epi- 



