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of instances the State Livestock Sanitary Board has been asked 

 to arrange for the inspection of all of the herds producing milk for 

 sale in certain towns. These requests have not in all cases been 

 complied with because the financial resources of the Board have not 

 been sufficient to enable it to undertake expenditures beyond those 

 heeded to repress disease where it was known or believed to exist. 



The relation of the State Livestock Sanitary Board to the dairy 

 inspection work of the State has been amended by section 6 of the 

 act of March 30, 1905, the provision being as follows: 



"Section 6. The State Livestock Sanitary Board may co-operate 

 with any local board of health, in accordance with rules and regu- 

 lations, and upon such terms of co-operation as may mutually be 

 agreed upon, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of dairy 

 herds and of milk supplies, and for the purpose of protecting such 

 milk supplies from contamination; and the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board may undertake, so far as possible, to bear one-half of the 

 cost of such examinations as are made, beyond the limits of the 

 jurisdiction of the said local board of health, for the purpose of 

 protecting from contamination milk produced to be sold within the 

 field of jurisdiction of said local board of health." Co-operation in 

 the work of dairy inspection under the terms of this section is being 

 discussed with a number of municipalities. 



The laboratory of the State Livestock Sanitary Board is con- 

 stantly taking a larger and more important part in the general work 

 of the Board. More specimens are being sent to the laboratory for 

 diagnosis and the laboratory is being depended on in constantly 

 increasing measure by the practicing veterinarians and the live 

 stock owners of the State. A great many cases that formerly could 

 not be positively diagnosed are now diagnosed through the aid of 

 the laboratory of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. This is the 

 only laboratory of the State that is equipped and manned for the 

 purpose of studying the diseases of animals and determining their 

 nature. The value of its services are now so widely known and so 

 fully appreciated that a great deal of work is thrown upon it. This 

 work is of the highest importance to the efficacy of the veterinary 

 sanitary administration of the State. By means of it, the accuracy 

 of the field work is constantly controlled and new outbreaks are 

 recognized and promptly dealt with, that otherwise, might not be 

 recognized for a long time. 



The research work of the laboratory has been directed chiefly 

 toward the work of developing a practical system for vaccinating 

 cattle against tuberculosis'. It has been considered to be wise to 

 concentrate all available energy on this problem so that it may be 

 solved as quickly as possible. 



In connection with the work of diagnosis, specimens have been 

 received for examination with relation to anthrax, blackquarter, 

 hemorrhagic-septicaemia, rabies, tuberculosis, glanders, pneumonia, 

 forage poisoning, etc. A large number of samples of milk have been 

 received for examination for tubercle bacilli, streptococci, etc. Many 

 specimens of parasites have been received and of tumors and of 

 other pathological material. The specimens submitted for examina- 

 tion for rabies numbered 0G. Of these, 86 were from dogs, 3 from 

 cats, 2 from horses, 3 from cows and 2 from children. By the ex- 

 amination of these specimens a positive diagnosis was made in 69 



