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vioiis year. Since the quarantine now extends throughout the year, 

 and it is desired to have this report cover the fiscal instead of the cal- 

 endar year, the following figures are given for the 18 months from 

 January 1, 1910, to June 30, 1911: Cattle shipped to northern mar- 

 kets, 1,325,060, which were transported in 48,563 cars, 37,180 of which 

 were reported as having been cleaned and disinfected under bureau 

 supervision. Reshipments were made from quarantine pens of 359,833 

 cattle carried in 13,208 cars. 



The number of cattle of the quarantined area inspected during the 

 fiscal year 1911, and permitted unrestiicted movement as provided 

 in the regulations, under 983 certificates of inspection issued b}^ bureau 

 inspectors, was 103,338, a decrease of 28 per cent as compaied w^th 

 1910. Of this number of cattle moved ui\aer certificate, 45,613 were 

 dipped or otherwise treated as provided in the regulations, which is an 

 increase of 30 per cent over the number so dipped or treated in the 

 previous year. 



TICK EKADICATION. 



As the result of the work done in cooperation with authorities of 

 various Southern States for the extermination of the ticks which 

 spread the infection of Texas fever of cattle, areas aggregating 10,965 

 square miles, as shown by the following table, were released from 

 quarantine during the fiscal year: 



In addition to the States named, operations are being carried on 

 in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, 

 Arkansas, Missouri, and California. 



During the year the total number of inspections made by bureau 

 employees was 4,016,448, of which 3,160,255 were reinspections. This 

 is an increase of 7.2 per cent over the inspections of the previous year. 



SCABIES IN SHEEP. 



During the fiscal year 1911 the area quarantined for scabies in 

 sheep was reduced by releasing from quarantine that portion of Oregon 

 lying west of the Cascade Mountains, an area of 22,560 square miles. 



The number of inspections made by bureau employees during the 

 year was 56,584,129, an increase of 7.26 per cent over the inspections 

 of the fiscal year 191 0. The number of dippings supervised by bureau 

 employees cluring the year was 12,715,631, an increase ot 4.62 per 

 cent as compared with the previous year. Bureau employees also 

 supervised the cleaning and disinfection of 2,143 cars. The increase 

 in the number of inspections and dippings of sheep is due to scabies 

 eradication work being taken u]) in the State of Kentucky, where over 

 half a million sheep were inspected; also to the increased movement 

 of sheep from the western ranges to market centers, and to a local 

 outbreak of scabies in two counties in Wyoming, which necessitated 

 the making of a large number of inspections in order that the extent 

 of the outbreak might be fully ascertained. 



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