1 Jone, 1898. ] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 517 
Tick Fever. 
INOCULATION FOR TICK FEVER. 
Mr. Dyson Lacy, of Mount Spencer, in the Central district, has been hard 
at work inoculating his herd. ‘Iwo thousand seven hundred beasts have 
undergone the operation, and no casualties have occurred in consequence of the 
treatment. This is a remarkable success. We are informed by Mr. C. J. 
Pound, Director of the Stock Institute, to. whose efforts in the cause of pre- 
vention of tick fever the stockowners of the colony are so much indebted, that 
deaths after inoculation will be rare if the regular habits of the animals on 
their campy and pastures are not interfered with. Inoculation, he says, 
should be performed in the early morning or late in the afternoon. 
Mr. Harvey, manager of Nebo Station, stated to Mr. Pound that he had 
inoculated 2,000 head of his own and of his neighbour’s cattle. He sustained 
a loss of about 5 per cent. This was doubtless owing to the fact of many of. 
of the cattle haying having been distributed after treatment. 
We learn that the dairy farmers in the districts about the Pimpama, 
Coomera, Albert, and Logan are anxiously awaiting a visit and a public demon- 
stration of the preventive treatment of cattle by Mr. Pound, when they will 
at once proceed to operate on their herds in view of the imminence of the tick 
inyasion of the South. 
