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others used in veterinary practice, is badly employed ; there 
are many diseases commonly called farcy in the country that 
are not farcy. 
40. Suppose you were to extend these provisions to a 
farcied animal, who would you get to decide whether the 
disease was what you called farcy, or what the people in the 
country called farcy ? — I think there should be some provision 
made in the Bill for the inspection of animals by veterinary 
surgeons under certain circumstances. It appears to me that 
one great defect in the present Bill is, the fact that there is 
no machinery in operation by which we can ascertain the 
whereabouts of disease, presuming it is necessary to proclaim 
a district, because, say smallpox is in the sheep, we know 
nothing of the district that may be so affected only by hear- 
say ; the government has no means of acquiring information 
on that important point. 
41. You mean to say that with regard to pleuro-pneumonia 
you propose to proclaim a district in which pleuro-pneumonia 
was known to exist, and so establish a sort of quarantine with 
regard to that district, and that you would prevent all animals 
going from that district into another? — I would deal in that 
manner with every contagious and infectious disease to which 
cattle and sheep are liable. 
42. Including pleuro-pneumonia? — Yes. 
43. What amount of pleuro-pneumonia in a farm would 
justify the establishment of such a system as that? — I think 
the law should be made to apply to a single case. 
44. How far do you think the district ought to extend 
round that single case ? — Just that one single spot, that one 
farm. 
43. Would you confine it to the farm, the field, the parish, 
or the town land? — To that farm. You have a clause in 
operation in the present Act that no individual shall depasture 
any animal infected with or labouring under any contagious 
or infectious disorder on or upon any forest, and so on. 
46. Would you place all animals in the farm under qua- 
rantine, or only this particular animal? — No; but I should 
legislate for their disposal afterwards. 
[To be continued .) 
