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This disease is not of special importance in connection with the veterinary 

 sanitary service of the State; it is of very limited prevalence and is mentioned 

 here because inquiries are frequently made as to whether animals affected 

 with this disease are required to be killed, whether such animals are appraised 

 and paid for by the State and whether the flesh of such animals may be used 

 for food. It is not required by law or by regulations of the State Livestock 

 Sanitary Board that animals with actinomycosis shall be killed, or even that 

 they shall be qUcuaiUiiied. Such anima.s are not paid for, appraised or con- 

 deinned by the tfttite. The only restriction in relation to such animals is as to 

 their use as food producers. A milch cow with actinomycosis is undesirable 

 both as a producer of milk and as a member of a milking herd. Even though 

 the lump on the jaw may be small, if it is discharging there is the possibility 

 that the organisms of suppuration as well as the fungus that produces this 

 disease may, by some indirect means, contaminate the milk. In the case of 

 animals with lumpy jaw that are slaughtered for food, it is required that the 

 head shall be condemned. If lesions of actinomycosis are found in other parts 

 of the body, the guiding principle in relation to the adjudication of the car- 

 cass are essentially the same as in the case of tuberculosis. 



BLACKLEG. Blackleg has occurred during the past year in the following 

 named counties: Bradford, Cambria, Clarion, Erie, Forest, Somerset, Susque- 

 hanna, Warren, Wayne and York. There were 42 reported deaths from black- 

 quarter before vaccination was applied. Nine hundred and flfty-one animals 

 were vaccinated on 74 farms. There were no reported deaths from blackleg 

 after vaccination was completed. 



GLANDERS. The following table shows the counties in which glanders has 

 been discovered during the past year, the number of horses that were regarded 

 as suspicious or that were exposed and tested, the number of horses or mules 

 destroyed on account of the existence of glanders: 



Allegheny, 



Beaver 



Bedfoid 



Berks 



Blair 



Bucks 



Carbrm 



Cambria, 



Centre 



Chester 



Clarion 



Clearfield, .. 

 Crawford, .. 

 Cumberland, 

 Dauphin, ... 

 Delaware, . . 



Fayette, 



Franklin, ... 



Ftilton 



Indiana 



Lackawanna, 



Lancaster, 



Lawrence, 



Lehigh 



Luzerne, 

 Lycoming, .. 

 McKean, 



Mercer 



Montgomery, 

 Northampton 



Perry, 



Philadelphia. 



Potter 



Fchuylkill, . 

 Susquehanna 



Tioga, 



Union 



Tork 



The total of the first column is 1618, against 1699 last year, and the total 

 number condemned is 218 as against 283 last year. 



