704 PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE IN AUSTRALIA. 
good condition, and giving milk. She was attacked, and 
died in November last, six iveeks after arrival. Two others 
died in the latter end of December and beginning of January, 
and from that to the present time, with only one slight in¬ 
termission of a month, the ravages of the disease have been 
incessant. The cattle have been attacked indiscriminately; 
young and old, milking cows, calves, and working bullocks 
have been alike liable to be seized. 
“ c While on this point, we deem it important to note that 
three lots of cattle purchased at different times and places, 
and introduced on the farm since the first outbreak of the 
distemper, have contributed a proportionate number to the 
total cases which have occurred; and, furthermore, that of 
five animals imported by Mr. Boadle, two have died, a third is 
at present recovering from the attack, a fourth has seemingly 
recovered, and the fifth has hitherto escaped the distemper. 
“ f The total number of deaths have been twenty-three; 
five beasts have recovered, but are evidently unsound; and 
on the occasion of our inspection, ten were ill, of which four 
were slaughtered at our request for dissection. 
“ ( Mr. Boadle had the services of a veterinary surgeon, 
and, in addition to curative, had preventive measures adopted 
such as physicking, rowelling, &c., but with no apparent ad¬ 
vantage, as the beasts we saw ill bore the traces of the pre¬ 
cautionary treatment. 
“ ‘ We have now to notice a circumstance calculated to 
assure the public, while it will prompt and incite to imme¬ 
diate and effective measures. Mr. Boadle’s farm is divided 
by the main road; the home farm, on which the disease first 
appeared, is on the one side and a large paddock on the other. 
The cattle in the latter have been kept from mingling with 
those on the home farm, and have not in any instance been 
attacked, whilst, as previously alluded to, the animals pur¬ 
chased and introduced on the home farm have contributed 
their quota of fatal cases. Furthermore, the neighbouring 
proprietors have not had a solitary case, Mr. Boadle having 
given them a timely caution, and we therefore feel perfectly 
justified in the conclusion that the actual visitation of pleuro¬ 
pneumonia is at present confined to Mr. Boadle’s stock and 
farm. We have made the most minute inquiries on the 
subject, and have had every assistance and facility afforded 
us in our inquiries in the neighbourhood on this important 
point, and must therefore have ascertained the fact had the 
disease manifested itself elsewhere. We therefore feel 
assured that at the period of our inspection it had not 
spread. 
