24 ANNtAL tlEPORt Ot'' THE Oft. bo<^. 



etc., no stallion shall enter the State without inspection, and in the 

 provision it makes for the course to be pursued in prosecutions. Two 

 thousand four hundred and thirty-one stallion licenses were issued in 

 1911, of which 941 were pure breds and 1,480 grades. Any bieeder 

 can see the license of all stallions and therefore know just what 

 they are. The farm of the tState Livestock Sanitary Board produced 

 especially good crops of hay, wheat, corn, silage, carrots and turnips. 

 The number of cattle on the farm have been reduced, while the hogs 

 have been inoi eased to furnish hog cholera serum to meet the general 

 demand for this remedy. 



CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES 



These are practically the same as in previous years, such as Acti- 

 nomycosis, Anthrax, lilackleg. Glanders, Hog Cholera, Munge, Kabies, 

 and Texas Fever. 



Thirteen animals either died or wer^ slaughtered during 1011 from 

 Actinomycosis. 



Anthrax: 1,005 cattle out of 77 herds reported from fourteen ditter- 

 ent counties Avere vaccinated in 1011 for Anthrax. Out of these herds 

 109 died previous to vaccination and one after vaccination. 



Black-leg: This disease attacks only young cattle under three or 

 four years old and can be entirely controlled by vaccination. The 

 vaccine is furnished free of charge by the Livestock Sanitary Board. 

 Twenty-one counties reported 149 herds containing 1,764 animals, of 

 which 85 died before vaccination and none after. 



Glanders: Eighteen counties reported glanders during the year 

 and positive diagnoses were made in fourteen counties. One man 

 in the State contracted the disease and died. From the eighteen 

 counties, 57 supposed cases were reported, 57 stablfts were inspected, 

 205 animals were physically examined, 222 tested with mallein, 43 

 were condemned on physical examination, 5 on the mallein test, or 

 a total of 48 condemned in the State during the year. 



HOG CHOLERA 



Forty-three counties reported hog cholera during 1911, with 411 

 herds infected consisting of 9,460 hogs and pigs, of which 4,933 were 

 \accinated. Over 3,000 hogs had died in these herds before vaccina- 

 tion and about the same number v/ere found to be too sick to vacci- 

 nate. The serum for hog cholera is prepared on the State Livestock 

 Sanitary Boand's farm and is furnished free of charge. Good re- 

 sults have been obtained from the use of the serum in all parts of the 

 State and wherever the treatment was applied early, the outbreak 

 was checked and no further loss was sustained. 



MANGE 



Twelve counties with 43 cases reported mange during the year. 

 434 cases were examined in 1911, of which 85 were quarantined, 

 of which all but three were cured. 



RABIES 



Fifty-two counties out of the 67 in the State reported rabies in 

 1911. 2,474 animals were quarantined for 100 days during 1911. 

 25 general quarantines of 100 days were maintained during the 



