No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTU ItE. Ill 



thi'ougii the -Laucaslei' Union stockyards, wLicli had also received 

 shipments of cattle from Michigan through the l)(>troit stockyards. 

 Infected cattle were contained in eight of the shipments from 

 East Buffalo to the following points: Danville, Watsontown, 

 Norristown, Lock Haven, Middleburg (2), Vera Cruz and Germans- 

 ville. Some of these cattle were slaughtered immediately after 

 their arrival, and before symptons of disease appeared, but the 

 greater number were sold to farmers in the vicinity of the i>oints 

 jnentioned. Fifteen of the cattle in the Norristowu shipment were 

 bought by a dealer and removed by him to Chester county, near 

 Newtown Square, and subsequently sold to farmers in Chester, Dela- 

 ware and Montgomery counties. In being driven from the unload- 

 ing point to the place of sale, or from the place of the sale to the 

 premises of the purchasers, some of these cattle came in contact 

 with Pennsylvania cattle, or temporarily occupied premises sub- 

 sequently used by Pennsylvania cattle. There were a few instances 

 in which native cattle were removed to other farms from premises 

 on which infected or exposed animals had been placed, after being 

 in contact with the latter animals. In this manner the disease was 

 carried to 86 farms, or other premises, in Chester, Clinton, Delaware, 

 Dauphin, Juniata, Lehigh, Lycoming. Montgomery, Montour, North- 

 umberland, Philadelphia, Snyder, Union and York counties. The 

 disease was also foundl before the close of 1908 on 12 farms in 

 Lancaster county to which cattle had been taken from the Lan- 

 caster Union stockyards, and on one farm in the same county where 

 the source of infection was not determined; a total of 99 farms, oi* 

 other premises, on Avhich infection was found jirior to December 31st, 

 1908, involving 1,183 cattle; 1,018 swine; 53 sheep and 4 goats.* 



The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture co-operated and assisted in this work. A large num- 

 ber of veterinary inspectors of the Bureau were brought into the 

 State and worked in conjunction with the State force. The Federal 

 authorities also paid two-thirds of the total cost of expense incurred 

 in the appraisal, destruction and burial of diseased and exposed 

 animals, and of the cost of cleaning an^ disinfecting infected pre- 

 mises. 



In addition to the tracing and examination of cattle shipped from 

 East Bufifalo, New York, and those sold at the Lancaster LTnion 

 stockyards, the investigation of reports of fo:ot-aud-mouth disease, 

 and the inspection of the animals on farms in counties in which the 

 disease was found, a vast amount of work was required in the execu- 

 tion of the nnarantine restrictions which were necessary to prevent 

 the spread of infection. The efforts of the State and Federal officials 

 engaged in this work were greatly assisted by the co-operation of 

 farmers and livestock owners, veterinarians and railroad officials. 



MILK HYGIENE. The State Livestock Sanitary Board has been 

 frequently called upon for assistance in purifying the sources of the 

 milk supply of local communities. Under the Act of March 30th, 

 1905, the Board is audiorized to take up such work in co-operation 

 with local Boards of Health, but it has not been possible to give 

 this work the attention it deserves on account of insufficient funds. 



Early in the year the demand for examinations of this character 

 became so insistent that it became necessary to arrange to do as 



♦These figures Inchirte all of the infection found except two farms in Lancaster county 

 containing 32 cattle and 5 swine, where the disease was discovered in January. H 



