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2. Has it prevailed in your neighbourhood, and, if so, how 
near to your own premises ? 
3. Did the disease first appear among the “ old stock " of 
the farm, or among the animals which. had been recently 
purchased ? 
4. Has it attacked any other varieties of animals besides 
oxen ? 
5. What is the usual health of the animals kept on the 
farm, their average age and condition ? 
6. What number of cattle are kept by you, and how many 
have been attacked by the disease ? 
7. Were the breeding or the fatting stock first affected? 
8. Can its appearance in your locality be traced to any 
special or direct cause, such as the introduction of diseased 
animals ? 
9. To what do you attribute its outbreak in your own 
herd ? 
10. Have the cows, either in calf or in milk, been more 
susceptible to the disease than the oxen ? 
1 1. Have you any proofs of calves being affected at birth, 
or very shortly afterwards ? 
12. What was the state of the weather at the time of the 
outbreak, and were the animals, when attacked, exposed to, 
or protected from, its influence ? 
13. Is it your opinion that the malady is contagious, and, 
if so, what proofs have you ? 
14. How long a time has usually elapsed between exposure 
to infection and the appearance of the disease ? 
15. Were the losses quickly replaced by new purchases? 
l(j. Did such newly-purchased animals have free commu- 
nication or not with those that had been previously living 
with the diseased, and, if so, for what period of time ? 
17. Have these animals been the subject of the disease? 
18. Is the malady on the increase or otherwise? 
19. What are the symptoms marking the commencement 
of the attack, and are they easily recognised or not ? 
20. What are the symptoms that accompany the progress 
of the disease, particularly those that indicate the greatest 
danger? 
21. Have any animals recovered in whom diarrhoea has 
shown itself in an advanced stage of the malady ? 
22. What number of the cattle have died, and what pro- 
portion have been killed, or otherwise disposed of? 
23. What are the usual post mortem appearances : is effusion 
of serous fluid into the chest usually present ? 
24. In how many cases were both lungs diseased ; in how 
