456 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Dec., 1898. 
Looking, therefore, soberly at the facts —before and after—we have, I 
think, to recognise that though the tick and the disoase which it so often con- 
veys are very great evils, and have been terribly disastrous to individual owners 
and to whole districts, they will not, as by some at one time feared, prostrate 
or in any way permanently injure the cattle-raising industry of Queensland ; 
‘that they are indeed less important than the tuberculosis trouble which so 
grievously affects the herds in many Huropean countries, and from which, 
unfortunately, even Australian cattle are not exempt, There seems, also, good 
reason to believe that the worst of the trouble is over, and that the disastrous 
consequences which have attended the spread of the ticks in this and other 
districts will be largely mitigated, in other parts which may yet be invaded, by 
a more general knowledge of the natural history of the disease, and a more 
timely adoption of those protective measures which we have been considering. 
THE TUBERCULIN TEST. 
BURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE ST. HELENA HERD. 
; By C. J. POUND, 
Director of the Queensland Stock Institute. 
Ty a previous report I stated that two animals—viz., the yearling bull Young 
Randwick, and the two-year-old heifer Hessie—gave a decided reaction to the 
tuberculin test, but in consequence of there being other conditions present, 
which might possibly cause a temporary rise of temperature in any animal, 
these two animals could only be looked upon as doubtful cases of tuberculosis 
until they were submitted to the test again. 
_ Exactly five weeks after the first test, the above two animals and the six 
cows that reacted previously were subjected to a second testing as follows :— 
The eight animals were brought quietly from the isolation paddock and 
secured in their respective stalls. ‘I'he normal temperatures were carefull 
recorded at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., and then each animal was injected behind the 
shoulder with the standard dose of tuberculin, and the reaction temperatures 
carefully recorded every three hours next day from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m., as 
shown in the following table :— : 
Temperatures. 
Before Injection. After Injection. 
Name of Animal. aihaaanini | a = ae 
13th October. 14th October. 
2 p.m. 6 p.m, 6 a.m. 9am. | 11am, 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 6 p.m, 
Dinah: ay us | 1035 102°8 102°8 103°8 104°1 104'7 104'2 104°1 . 
Annie met irs, a aleeLO2sD 102°1 101° 104°4 103°3 104° 103°8 103°6 - 
Bluebell ... ey +. | 102°4 102°8 102° 102°9 102°3 | 103°8 102°1 104°2 
Floss St Ay ae} MUD 101'7 101°5 104°8 104° 103°9 104°5 104°2 
Diana as ot «| 102°3 102°3 } -102° 102°6 | 103°6 104° 102°9 
Snowdrop ... el tesblaLO2:6 102:7 101°2 | 102°2 1031 104°8 102'8 102°6 
Hessie ak to ain .. | 103°6 102°7 104°6 104'9 1042 104'3 103°2 
Young Randwick «| 1024) 102°5 | ° 105: 105°2 | 104-1 | 1048 | 1042 
It will be noticed that each animal gave a very decided reaction, thereby 
proving a fact of the utmost importance—viz., that tubercular animals wiil 
react in a most pronounced manner to the tuberculin test a second time within 
five weeks. . 
