1883.] REPORT ON DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 325 



but just completed, and hitherto animals imported by breeders in 

 this State have been allowed to come bere under the National 

 quarantine regulations', in charge of your Commission. Over forty 

 head of choice high-priced Jerseys have recently been imported 

 by Messrs. S. M. Burnham of Saugatuck, W. R. McCready of Sau- 

 gatuck, S. W. Robbins of "Wethersfield, Wallace Barnes of Bristol, 

 and ten head of Swiss by Messrs. Scott and Harris of Wethers- 

 field. All these have served their ninety days of quarantine, till 

 released by the commission, except two herds that are still in our 

 care. 



This privilege has been a great accommodation to the owners wbo 

 desired to have their animals under their own supervision, but has 

 imposed considerable labor on the Commission to attend faithfully 

 to the surveillance of the animals placed in our charge. These 

 importers are all very anxious for the continuance of this privilege, 

 feeling that the quarantine in the public yards is a great burden 

 upon their efforts to improve our neat stock, and it has been very 

 gratifying to us that we could be of such essential service to them. 

 All cattle that are permitted by the New York Cattle Commission 

 to come to this State, are promptly reported to this Commission. 



The action of the last Legislature in abolishing the law for the 

 suppression of glanders, and failure to enact a more eflBcient one, 

 has left the matter as it stood before, to be dealt with by Boards 

 of Health, the Humane Society, and this Commission; not, it is 

 true, in a very eflBcient or satisfactory manner, yet the necessity 

 for action has been so often made apparent that none of these 

 organizations could refuse to take such action as their powers 

 allowed. Many bad cases have thus been disposed of, but no thor- 

 ough work looking to its extermination has been attempted. The 

 continued existence of the disease in any civilized community is 

 proof enough of the dangerous nature of the malady, and the difiS- 

 culty of eradicating it. When the State demands in the exercise 

 of its paternal authority that every danger to the lives of its citi- 

 zens, and to their material prosperity shall be scrupulously guarded 

 against by law, then we may hope to have some legislation that 

 will protect us from this which has always been a most fatal malady 

 among horses, and fraught with danger to the human family. 



E. H. HYDE, ) Commissioners on 

 T. S. GOLD, V Diseases of Domestic 

 J. W. ALSOP, ) Atiimals. 



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