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Among" other outbreaks of supposed jinfeetioiis, or contagious 

 diseases reported to ilie J>oaid and iiivesligated by one of their 

 agents consisted of one case of dog disteini)er in IMair county, two 

 outbreaks of forage ])oisoning among horses in the United States 

 army, camped at Gettysburg; four liundred liorses and two liundred 

 mules were in the camp. Seventeen horses were affected and three 

 died. Two cases of garget; one in Cambria county and tlie otlier in 

 Chester county. Tliree tiutbreaks of hemorrhagic septicaemia; one 

 in Schuylkill county and two in Potter county. Five cases of sup- 

 posed mange Avliich, ui»on examination, was found that the irritation 

 of the skin was caused by lice. One case of paralysis of a cow in 

 Northampton county. One outbreak of a disease among sheep in 

 Franklin county, and upon laboratory examination was found to be 

 caused by the parasite known as oestrus orvis. Eighty-three cases 

 of supi)osed infectious or contagious diseases were reported to the 

 Board, but after corresponding with the owners and veterinarians 

 in charge, it was decided that they were not infectious or contagious 

 and therefore did not come within the scope of the work of the 

 State Livestock Sanitary Board. Seventy-eight cases were reported 

 1o this office in which no definite diagnosis could be made owing 

 to the fact that the history was not complete or that the specimen 

 submitted waw not in condition for examinaion. In other instances, 

 when an agent of the Board arrived at the ])remises, no animal was 

 available for postmortem examination and none of the other animals 

 were showing any symptoms sufficient to warrant a diagnosis. 



REGISTRATION OF STALLIONS 



The work of the registration and licensing of stallions as pro- 

 vided for in the Act approved April 25, 1907, has been imder the 

 direct supervision of Dr. Carl W. Gay, assisted by Dr. James Mc- 

 Closkey. Dr. Gay has had this work in charge since its inaugura- 

 tion, and I beg to submit the following report from him for the year 

 1910. 



Statistics for this, the third year during which the stallion law 

 has been in effect, show the nund)er of stallions in the State to be 

 increasing rather ra])idly. a total of 2,385 having been licensed, of 

 which 90S are pure breds, 1,474 grades, and 3 cross breds. Those of 

 pure breeding have, as was the case during 1909, made decided ad- 

 vancement, 85 in number or more than 10 per cent,, while the grades 

 have gained 47 or ?>.'> ])er cent. The ditferent breeds of pure breds 

 are represented as follows: 



Percheron 31 5 1 Tlioi-oughbred 10 



Standardbred 289 :dorgan 9 



Belgian GO Saddle 7 



Gei-Tuan Coach 40 



Shire 43 



Cyldesdale 33 



French Draft 29 



Hackney 26 



French Coach 25 



Cleveland Bay 3 



Shetland . . .' 3 



Suffolk 1 



Yorkshire 1 



Orloff 1 



Welsh Ponv 1 



