No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Ill 



quantity of this culture. After such an inoculation there was no 

 change in the appearance or condition of the udder or of the milk 

 excepting that the milk developed a reddish color after standing 

 for one, two or three davs. 



Other bacteriological examination of milk have been made to 

 determine the cause of a bitter taste of milk and difficulty in cream 

 ing, and these defects have been traced to the udder of a single 

 member of a herd. 



Expenditures. For the fiscal year ending May 31, 1905, the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board had available $45,000 for its general 

 work in repressing diseases of animals. Expenditures under this 

 fund may be classified as follows: For tuberculous cattle, $24, 

 915.90; for glandered horses, $679.50; for inspecting tuberculous cat- 

 tle and herds, $4,589.59, for inspections for the purpose of repressing 

 disease other than tuberculosis, for vaccinations, etc., $3,469.61; for 

 the cost of enforcing quarantines, for materials used in making 

 tuberculin, for making and shipping tuberculin, for the diagnosis 

 of specimens, etc., $3,746.70, for office and miscellaneous expenses, 

 $4,849.90; for the enforcement of the law requiring the inspection 

 of cattle from other states, $2,748.80. 



The following laws relating to the work of the State Livestock 

 Sanitary Board have been enacted since the publication of the last 

 report : 



No. 56. 

 AN ACT 



To further define the duties and powers of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board; 

 to prevent the spread of dangerous, contagious or infectious diseases among 

 domestic animals; to require reports to be made of the existence of such dis- 

 eases; to limit appraisements and payments for animals that it may be neces- 

 sary to destroy to prevent the spread of disease; to protect milk supplies from 

 contamination; to authorize co-operation with local boards of health; and to 

 prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c, That all practitioners of veterinary 

 medicine in Pennsylvania shall, immediately upon gaining informa 

 tion thereof, report to the secretary of the State Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board the occurrence among animals of any one of the following 

 diseases: Glanders, anthrax, blackleg, or blackquarter; contagious 

 pleuropneumonia, or lung plague of cattle; rinderpest, or cattle 

 plague; haemorrhagic septicaemia, foot and mouth disease, or aph- 

 thous fever of cattle; southern cattle fever, or Texas fever; sheep 

 scab; mange of cattle or horses; hog cholera, or swine plague; rabies, 

 or hydrophobia maladie de coit, or eldurine, of horses; advanced or 

 generalized tuberculosis of the udder; or any other disease adjudged 

 and proclaimed by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to be of a 

 dangerously infectious or virulent character. 



The report to the secretary of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 

 shall be made in writing, and shall include a description of the dis- 

 eased animal or animals, the name and address of the owner or per- 

 son in charge of the animal, if known, and a statement as to the 

 location of the animal. 



Section 2. No person who has knowledge of the existence of any 

 one of the diseases enumerated in section one of this act, or of an 

 animal afflicted with any one of the said diseases, or with any other 

 disease adjudged and proclaimed by the State Live Stock Sanitarv 

 Board to be of a dangerously infection or virulent character, shall 



