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condemn the oilier parts of the carcass. If, however, the disease 

 is generalized or if it has extended to the lungs, then the entire 

 carcass should be condemned. No provision has been made by the 

 State Livestock Sanitary Board for the payment of compensation 

 for animals killed on account of this disease. 



Poisoning. The State Veterinarian is often consulted with regard 

 to cases wherein animals are poisoned or are believed to have been 

 poisoned. Such poisonings are in some cases accidental and in 

 other cases malicious. The diagnosis of poison, and especially 

 in the case of an animal that has been dead several days, must 

 depend upon a chemical analysis. The laboratory of the State Live- 

 stock Sanitary Board is not equipped to do chemical work of this 

 nature and so it has not been possible to respond to a large number 

 of requests to analyze organs or stomach contents from animals 

 believed to have been poisoned. Moreover, it does not appear that 

 work of this kind is within the scope of the work that the Legisla- 

 ture intended the State Livestock Sanitary Board to do. Reference 

 is made to this point in order to make it clear that chemical work 

 of this nature cannot be performed in the laboratory of the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board. 



Ttxas fever. But two cases of Texas fever were reported during 

 the year. In one case the afflicted animal w r as a steer that had re- 

 cently been brought into the State, and in the other case it was a 

 yak that had been shipped from the south. 



Other diseases : Cow-pox, calf cholera, forage poisoning, parasitic 

 diseases, diseases of fowls, etc., have shown no unusual features 

 during the past year. All of these and many other subjects have 

 been discussed through correspondence with interested persons. 

 Diagnoses of these diseases have been made in many instances, and 

 such action as has been necessary to prevent the spread of infection 

 has been taken, and advice has been furnished looking toward pre- 

 vention. 



Respectfully submitted, 



LEONARD PEARSON, 



State Veterinarian 



