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                        although several had severe typical attacks of the dis-
                        ease. The weather throughout June was excessively
                        hot.

      (b) Hæmorrhagic Septicæmia.— Fifty-seven deaths occurred from this
            disease, the largest number for several years. Nearly all
            the deaths were amongst calves about four months old and
            occurred during a severe epidemic of the disease in Septem-
            ber. The disease began early in the month at Babran where
            the cows are usually kept during the rains in thorn Kraals,
            and at first cases occurred singly at intervals in the endemic
            form of the disease usual here. The usually effective mea-
            sures of segregation proving ineffective; serum was tele-
            graphed for, and 297 animals were inoculated. The serum
            had the effect of at once stopping the outbreak, but in the
            meantime the disease had become epidemic and deaths oc-
            curred daily in numbers till all in contact had been inocu-
            lated.
                  While waiting for serum some of the various treatments
                        which have recently been recommended for the disease
                        were tried, notably Pot. permanganate by the
                        mouth, and injunctions of iodine dissolved in Pot.
                        iodine. One animal recovered after iodine injections,
                        the remaining treated animals all died. One animal
                        recovered without any treatment at all, and so far as
                        the experience of this outbreak goes to show no useful
                        medicinal treatment for the disease in the field has yet
                        been discovered.
                  It is to be hoped that the Imperial Bacteriological
                        Laboratory will eventually be able to elaborate a
                        vaccine for this disease, producing an immunity long
                        enough to tide animals ever their period of maximum
                        susceptibility. There is no doubt that calves are far
                        more susceptible to this disease than mature animals.
                  The above two outbreaks involved the Veterinary Staff
                        of the Farm in much extra work at a very trying time of
                        year. The affected animals in both cases were isolated
                        at a distance of over 5 miles from headquarters.
                  Seven hundred and thirty-six animals were inoculated
                        and without a single accident. No one not conversant
                        with the difficulty of rounding up and catching wild
                        stock like that on this Farm, can realise how credit-
                        able a result this is.

      (c) Black Quarter was responsible for 7 deaths only, considerably
            less than the average of recent years. All young stock are
            inoculated against this disease at the time of weaning with
            a vaccine issued by the Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory.

      (d)  Foot and Mouth Disease occurred twice, as usual in the autumn
            and early spring. Except amongst imported merino sheep,
            the outbreaks were mild and of little consequence. Coming
            at the end of the hot weather and rains before the imported
            sheep had had time to pick up condition, the autumn out-
            break was very severe amongst them. Most of them appear-
            ed to have no power of resistance at all, but just laid down
            and died on the first onset of symptoms.

      (e)   Strangles occurred in a mild form only and caused very little
            trouble.

      (f) Navel Ill.—Precautionary measures proved very effective in
            reducing losses from this disease.

      (g) Sheep Scab which was discovered early in the cold weather, is,
            as far as this Farm is concerned, a new disease.