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“Tf, as I confidently anticipate, these results are corroborated when the 
animals inoculated at Mundoolan are put to the test, it would seem only. 
necessary to remark that the inoculation can be done without difficulty by 
any practical stockman, armed with a suitable syringe, and that the present cool 
season is a pre-eminently favourable time for inoculation. It should be stated 
in connection with these Glendower experiments that, by the generous aad 
public-spirited action of Mr. Gray, it was arranged that only such animals as 
were actually destroyed should be charged to the Department. We are also 
indebted to him and to Mr. Ferguson for the amenities and conveniences of the 
station whilst the experiments were in progress. 
_  Thave just received a letter from a practical cattleman, who watched our 
Glendower experiments very closely—with, I think, at first a little scepticism. 
He says: ‘1 certainly intend to inoculate the stud cattle, feeling my way 
carefully, and am now erecting yards at ————— for that purpose. If we 
could get rain and green grass, I would not hesitate a minute to put tick 
fever through all the studs with the exception of the cows that are in calf, and I 
feel sure the results ‘ would be satisfactory.’ ” 
INOCULATION AT ROCKHAMPTON. 
Ty a private letter to the Hon. A. J. Thynne, Secretary for Agriculture, Mr, 
Archer, of Gracemere Station, near Rockhampton, gives some highly interesting 
and important details of experiments carried out by him for the purpose of 
ascertaining the value of inoculation as a preventive against tick fever. 
With this view, Mr. Archer tried two remedies on four bullocks. One of them 
he inoculated with the blood taken from a beast which had recovered from an 
attack of tick fever, another with the blood of a beast suffering from a virulent 
form of the disease. The other two bullocks were not inoculated, being kept for 
control purposes. When the operations were complete, the four bullocks were 
put into a paddock badly infested with ticks. The result was, that first the 
two control animals died of the fever; then the bullock inoculated with the 
virulent blood got very sick, but eventually recovered ; lastly, the animal which 
had been inoculated with the blood of the recovered bullock showed no symptom 
of the disease. 
1t will thus be seen that Mr. Pound’s theory of inoculation versus dipping 
has been confirmed from two independent sources. 
