SOUTH AUSTRALIA.-—REPORT OF SHEEP INSPECTOR. 675 
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and when it is too late for action to be taken. With more 
power to deal with pleuro-pneumonia and more inspectors, 
the staff would be of greater value to the country, and even 
with the present regulations I require another inspector 
to be stationed farther north, and one to look after cattle 
coming into market within 20 miles of Adelaide, which I find 
it impossible to examine and attend to other duties. 
The losses from pleuro-pneumonia are too well known to 
need speaking of, but the value of action taken against 
disease is noted in Great Britain, and is remarked upon by 
Professor McCall, at Glasgow, who states “ that in that city 
alone there was in twelve years an annual loss of £4556. 
For the past three years after the Contagious Diseases Act 
came into force the annual loss was reduced to £650 per 
annum/' Under that Act diseased animals were killed and 
compensation allowed. He further states :—" He was of 
opinion that if all the local authorities did their duty the 
ravages of pleuro-pneumonia, like those of cattle plague, 
would become a tale that had been told/' 
Destruction of diseased, and isolation of infected animals, 
as well as inoculation of the remainder of the herd, has been 
encouraged, and although the latter advice has not been 
followed to so great an extent as the two former, I may say 
the practice of the system has increased. I have to thank 
several cattle owners who have visited Adelaide from Queens¬ 
land for encouraging the practice of inoculation, showing the 
benefit they themselves have derived from it, and taking the 
trouble to initiate others into the practice here. 
Arrangements are likely to be made by which a supply of 
lymph may be obtained at small cost by stockholders, who 
are doubtful as to their ability to procure good lymph. This 
will encourage the practice of a system of inoculation as 
preventive against pleuro-pneumonia, which has been so suc¬ 
cessfully practised in Queensland and New South Wales. 
The inspectors complain of the difficulty of dealing with 
diseased cattle running on reserves and waste lands where 
ownership cannot be traced, and there is no provision in the 
regulations dealing with cattle in such places. It is by means 
of infected animals mixing with other cattle on such places, 
belonging to perhaps half a dozen different owners, that 
infection is carried to different parts of the district. The 
inspectors should have power to destroy diseased animals 
found running at large to the detriment of the public, if not 
able to find the owner. 
The imports by land from New South Wales during the 
year have been 157,511 sheep, 15,170 cattle, and 623 horses; 
