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times as mauy applications from herd owners as can be regponded to 

 under the existing financial limitations. Since all herds whose 

 owners apply for an inspection and tuberculin test, can not be in- 

 spected and tested, and all tubercular cattle removed as is desired, 

 the attempt is at all times made, to test the herds that appear to be 

 most extensively infected, and in respect to other herds, to remove 

 the animals that are most immediately dangerous. In this way 912 

 tubercular cattle have been considered and destroyed during the year. 

 These were appraised at .f2G,30t).25. There is at present a most 

 active desire on the the part of cattle owners to free their herds from 

 tuberculosis. They appear to keenly realize the harm the disease is 

 doing, and are willing to co-operate with the State Veterinarian 

 to repress it. Indeed, as stated above, they constantly apply, of 

 their own volition, for more aid than the State Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board can pay for. The result of this interest is, that tuberculosis 

 of cattle is being rejDressed in Pennsylvania at a gratifying rate, and 

 each year shows less loss from this cause. 



There have been 35 cases of glanders in the State during the 

 past year. Most of these diseased animals were involved in two 

 outbreaks of the disease, one of which came from a glandereJ mule 

 from East St. Louis, and the other was traced to a pony from Mary- 

 land. By immediately checking such outbreaks, the dissemination 

 of the disease and the infection of the horse stock of the State, is 

 prevented. The value of this protection is apparent, when it is 

 known, that in Massachusetts with about one-fifth the area of Penn- 

 sylvania, there are from seven to eight hundred condemnations on 

 account of glanders each year. 



Rabies has prevailed rather extensively, and nearly all parts of 

 the State have been involved. It is extremely difficult to prevent 

 this disease, and it is scarcely possibly without establishing a gen- 

 eral quarantine of all dogs in infected districts. In order that this 

 may be done eftectually additional legislation is necessary, and a bill 

 covering this ground will be submitted to the incoming Legisla- 

 ture. 



The discovery of ''Rinderseuche" has cleared up a question as to 

 the identity of a disease that has prevailed rather extensively among 

 cattle turned out in some of the rougher mountainous parts of the 

 State. This disease has been shown to exist in only two other parts 

 of the United States, but now that attention has been called to it, 

 it may be found that it is of much wider distribution than has been, 

 supposed. 



All things considered, the most notable achievement of the year, 

 so far as the work of the State Veterinarian is concerned, is the de- 

 velopment of a means to vaccinate cattle for the prevention of tuber- 

 culosis. This process consists in introducing into the system of the 



