INOCULATION AS A CURE FOR PLEURO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 17, 9 June 1880, Page 4

INOCULATION AS A CURE FOR PLEURO.

At a recent meeting of the South Auckland Cattle Board, Mr. Naden, V.S., said that it had never been proved to him that inoculation was a specific for the disease of pleuvopneumonia. He, however, was quite open to correction, and was willing to make the experiment on, say, 10 or 12 head of cattle. He would isolate them first and then inoculate them ; afterwards repeating the operation on some of them, with a view of seeing whether the vims would take effect a second time ; afterwards he would turn a few diseased cattle among them and mark the result. Such information, remarked Mr. Naden, would be very valuable. We were impressed at the time (says the Waikato Times) with the value of the suggestion, and are therefore pleased to hear that an effort is being made to carry it out. The cost would not be great, as Mr. Naden has undertaken the experiment on the payment of his actual expenses, and there only remains to be obtained a few head of cattle, and a suitable place to carry on the operations. Pei'haps the Swamp company would agree to set apart a piece of land for the purpose. People of opposite opinions have been so dogmatic upon this subject that the discovery of something tangible, one way or the other, would be of incalculable value, and would go more towards coi.v incing those in error, on whichever side, than all the theorising in the world.