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Mr. Manon, in reply to Mr. Wells, said that wnder the Public Health 
Act a local authority had power to destroy cancerous cattle. It was not 
compelled to give compensation for the beast destroyed, but regretted that the 
Act has seldom been enforced. 
Mr. J. G. Paternorre (Toowoomba) considered the cancer question was a 
very seriousone. He had seen plenty of cancerous cattle in travelling about, and 
on one occasion when seeing some so affected bullocks being slaughtered, he asked 
the owner what he did with them. The reply was that they were killed for the 
hides, and, as for the flesh—well, the people about the district came and took it. 
Mr. Byrneway (Gympie), in reply to Mr. Lindeman, said that, in the 
co-operative dairy company he had referred to, the capitalist got interest for 
his money, and the other shareholders got the dividends and bonuses. The 
producing members had the privilege of buying the capitalists out. 
Mr. 8S. A. Linpeman (Bundaberg) considered in such a company the 
capitalists’ interest should be limited, say, to 7 per cent. A fault in some com- 
panies was that farmers, perhaps in debt to the storekeepers, were afraid to 
come to its meetings and speak up concerning its management. ‘The aim of 
everyone who had at heart the settling of people on the soil should be to make 
those people, if they wished to build up a true yeomanry, as free and as 
independent as possible. 
Mr. W. Deacon (Allora) said that ‘so far as his experience went, he had 
always found farmers as independent as anyone else. ‘They were as free from 
human encumbrances and human liabilities as any class of men. 
Mr. M. Metnor (Gympie) said it was a matter of congratulation to 
farmers throughout the colony that the Government was showing such an 
active interest in the industry,’ and that they were supplying agriculturists 
with the services of such menas Mr. Mahon, a gentleman who had done and 
was doing a vast amount of good for the dairying industry of the colony. As 
for the matter of eancer in cattle, he considered it would be unwise to raise 
a panic about the matter; and, as a matter of fact, he did not think there was 
so much danger of the disease being communicated to human beings through 
cancerous cattle as some people believed, nor did he think it was increasing 
in Queensland any more than in any other colony. Still it would be very 
beneficial if the Government would take steps to destroy cancerous cattle, as 
any provisions for their destruction by other bodies appeared to be inopera- 
tive. In connection with this subject, it was a difficult point to learn from 
whence the cancer first derived its life. They knew that at times where an 
animal had been branded, the brand itself turned into a cancer. However, he 
thought if cancer was communicated to individuals, that it came more through 
the milk the people were supplied with than anything else; for he believed there 
was more cancer inside than was seen outside, and if it was communicated it 
was probably internally. 
Mr. P. Hacenpacn (Warwick) mentioned the case of a fine dairy cow of 
his which had been horned by another one about ten or twelve years ago. 
Being a hot summer's day flies attacked the wound, and in about six months it 
developed into cancer, so that the animal had to be shot. None of her progeny 
ever showed a sign ot the disease, so that he thought much of it was caused by 
hurts and branding: 
Mr, T. A. Bromrrey (Pialba) wanted to know how to diagnose cancer. 
There were many tumours and sores in cows called cancer, but he was inclined 
to think many ot the sores caused by the deep burns of brands were not cancers. 
Hurts such as Mr, Hagenbach haddescriked were very rarely cancers. He did 
not pretend to know much about the matter, but he had examined cases and 
had read enough to have something of an idea of it. Cancers very nearly 
always appeared on the soft parts of the animal, and the running tumours about 
the jaws were not necessarily cancers. Stili it was not an easy matter to 
diagnose the disease, and it would only be a properly qualified man who could - 
always do it. Many aman would tell them that such an animal had cancer, | 
