EXTRACTS FROM CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' 



REPORT. 



We herewith submit the report of the Cattle Commissioners 

 for the two years commencing Dec. 1904 and ending Dec. i, 

 1906, containing our accounts of cattle, horses and sheep con- 

 demned and destroyed under the provisions of the law of 1887, 

 chapter 19, relating to contagious diseases among cattle, horses 

 and sheep, and as amended in 1898, and also the new law, passed 

 by the Legislature in 1905, relating to pure blood cattle. 



During the two years there have been condemned and de- 

 stroyed by your commission as follows : 



AVERAGE COST EOR THE YEAR I905. 



Cattle and horses including all expenses, $35.25 ; condemning 

 and destroying, including all expenses, $12.07; owner received 

 per animal, $23.18. 



AVERAGE COST FOR THE YEAR I906. 



Cattle and horses, including all expenses, $35.77 ; condemning 

 and destroying, including all expenses, $12.17; owner received 

 per animal, $23.60; amount of business done during the two 

 years, paid for, $32,488.02 ; amount of business done during the 

 two years, not paid for, $28,814.77. 



Total amount of business done during the two years, 

 $61,302.79. 



