No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUT.TUIIE. lOi 



(() he to cut off one of the ears of the animal that has died. Tlii.s 

 small object can be packed in such a way that it is entirely safe to 

 ship it, and, moreover, the specimen can be obtained without open- 

 ing the carcass, which would almost inevitably be accompanied by 

 grave results. The specimen should be placed in a fruit jar which 

 should be closed and packed in cracked ice in a large bucket. The 

 bucket should bo covered and shipped by express to the laboratory 

 of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, 3Gth and Spruce Streets, 

 rhiladelphia. A tag should be attached to the package giving infor- 

 mation as to the origin of the specimen, and a letter giving all of the 

 known facts in regard to the origin, history and nature of the dis- 

 ease should be sent to the State Vetreinarian. 



Black-quarter. Black-quarter has occurred during the past year 

 in the counties of Erie, Jefferson, Lackawanna, Montgomery, Sus- 

 quehanna and Warren. The prevalence of this disease has been 

 considerably less than for several years past. This malady is sim- 

 ilar to anthrax in that the germ causing it may liA^e for a long time 

 in the soil, and in that the disease is prevented through a system 

 of vaccination. Black-quarter is chiefly a disease of young cattle, 

 selecting those that are in the best condition. It is most prevalent 

 in the spring and fall and in some regions occurs so extensively as 

 to cause very serious losses. Vaccination was applied during the 

 year to 720 animals, and no animal that was vaccinated developed 

 black-quarter, although all of them were on farms or in neighbor- 

 hoods where the disease had occurred. The vaccine used for thi.s 

 purpose was obtained from Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the United 

 States Bureau of Animal Industry. 



JRinderseuche, Hemorrhagic Septicaemia or Spotted Fever of Cattle. 

 In ni}- report for last year a description was given of this disease 

 and a statement was made that its existence in Peuns^^lvania had 

 been positively proven through researches made by Dr. S. H. Gili- 

 land and myself. The occurrence in Pennsylvania of a disease, 

 closely related, clinically, and in its jjathology, to Rinderseuche, has 

 long been known. Although efforts have several times been made 

 to obtain bacteriological evidence as to the nature of this disease, 

 these efforts were not wholly successful until last year during the 

 outbreak in Carbon county in the vicinity of Manch Chunk and 

 Tamaqua. This disease has been reported during the year from 

 several parts of the State, but almost always in the mountainous 

 and less well cultivated districts. 



During the past year, however, there have been on well cultivated 

 farms a few outbreaks of the disease. In these outbreaks all the 

 principal forms of rinderseuche have been seen. They are those 

 in wiiich the alterations are most pronounced in the skin, or in the 

 organs within the chest, or in the digestive tract. In Minnesota, 

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