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to sell them off periodically, when they are no longer required
for work, and to purchase others when they are required. In
short, whether the breeding of cattle pays them.
(c) The class of cattle, especially cows, found in the different parts
of the district whether good or had. If the people keep many
cows, what is the height of the majority of them, and are they
sturdy, or generally small.
(d) What is the general management of the animals. Is grazing in
any quantity available, and do the people grow and store suffi-
cient fodder for them.
(e) Are local breed bulls turned loose in sufficient numbers for the
cows; and are the bulls suitable and of good quality.
(f) Have any bulls been introduced into the district. If so, what
breed are they. Where have they been stationed. Do the
people like them. Can any of their stock be seen, and do the
people prefer it to their own indigenous breed. Have any of
the stock been turned loose as bulls.
(g) If the people do not like the bulls, what are the real reasons for
their dislike.
If the above information be collected, some advance will have been
made in the knowledge of the requirements of the various parts of the pro-
vince with regard to cattle-breeding. Veterinary Assistants should be directed
to thoroughly travel their districts, carefully noting and reporting to the
Assistant to the Inspector-General, Civil Veterinary Department, on the
abovementioned points, village by village, until the information for the
whole of their charge is complete. The Assistant to the Inspector-General,
Civil Veterinary Department, will then take steps to have the information
thus furnished, duly verified, ledgered, and recorded.
Cattle Disease.
526. With regard to the collection of statistics of cattle disease, it is desirable
that a good general knowledge of the diseases which do occur, should be ob-
tained; otherwise no opinion can be formed as to what is necessary to be
done in the matter. Certain diseases are very prevalent in certain parts of a
district, and do not occur in others. Other diseases assume a benignant form
in certain centres, whilst, they are exceedingly malignant in others.
In view, therefore, to obtain a correct record of all diseases which
are prevalent in the districts, the work required from Veterinary Assistants
will be:
(a) To report, at once, to the Assistant to the Inspector-General, Civil
Veterinary Department, serious outbreaks of disease.
(b) To state the nature of the disease, and numbers (approximately)
of deaths; having ascertained this from the people.
(c) To state what treatment or other measures have been applied, and
whether the people will allow their cattle to be segregated in
outbreaks of contagious disease, or not.
(d) In cases of disease, which the Veterinary Assistants cannot cor-
rectly diagnose, they should give the symptoms, course, termina-
tion, and also post-mortem appearances; and should, if possible,
in the case of contagious diseases, collect tissues under direc-
tions of the Assistant to the Inspector-General, Civil Veterinary
Department.
(e) Veterinary Assistants should take every opportunity, during their
tours, to advise the people regarding the treatment of ordinary
diseases with common drugs, and tell them what to do in cases
of serious disease.
These proposals having been accepted by the Government of the Punjab,
Veterinary Captain Pease, with the sanction of the Government of India, com-
menced his duties in the Gurgaon district in October last and began the
Bacteriological Survey in the districts of Dehli, Umballa, Kurnal, and parts
of Ludhiana.