248 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



LIP-AND-LEG ULCERATION IN SIIKEP. 



For several years there has existed in several of the Western States 

 a contagious disease known as lip-and-leg ulceration (necrobaeillosis) 

 among sheep, but during the past 3'ear this disease seemed to become 

 more extensive and assumed a very virulent form in the State of 

 Wyoming; and, in order that its spread to other States might be pre- 

 vented, eight counties in that State were, on August 12, 1909, placed 

 nndei- federal (juarantine. The number of inspections during the 

 year for this disease was 34,549,974. The number of dippings and 

 disinfections reported during the year was 2,7G5,773, with the result 

 that a recent inspection of sheep on the range shows that the disease 

 is decreasing in virulence and that there has been a large decrease in 

 the number of diseased sheep, as compared with the inspection in the 

 fall of 1909. 



REPORTS OF VIOLATIONS OF LIVE-STOCK TRANSPORTATION LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 



During the fiscal year employees of the Bureau made about 550 

 reports of alleged violations of what is known as the twenty-eight- 

 hour law and 200 reports of alleged violations of the act of March 

 3, 1905, and regulations based thereon. The information thus ob- 

 tained was placed before the Department Solicitor, who presented to 

 the Department of Justice for prosecution such cases as seemed to 

 be supported by sufficient evidence. Many of the cases tried required 

 special investigations and the collection of evidence by employees of 

 the Bureau, who cooperated with the United States attorneys in 

 charge of the cases. 



THE QUARANTINE DIVISION. 



The Quarantine Division, of which Dr. E,. W. Hickman is the 

 chief, deals mainly with the inspection and quarantine of imported 

 live stock, the inspection of live stock for export, cooperative investi- 

 gations with state and municipal authorities concerning bovine tuber- 

 culosis, interstate tuberculin testing of cattle, and investigations of 

 animal diseases in Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands. 



INSPECTION OF VESSELS AND EXPORT ANIMALS. 



During the fiscal year 443 inspections of vessels carrying live stock 

 were made before clearance, in order to see that the regulations were 

 complied with as to fittings, equipment, ventilation, feed, water, at- 

 tendants, etc., and G50 certificates of inspection were issued for Amer- 

 ican cattle. The following table gives statistics of inspection of live 

 animals for export during the year: 



