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western states and in several of the large cities of the east, particu- 

 larly Kew York city. Some of the infected localities are under the 

 jurisdiction of competent yeterinary, sanitary officers and others are 

 not. Some states and cities pay yery little attention to this subject. 

 The prices of horses liaye been abnormally high during the past 

 two years. This has served to encourage dealers to gather up and 

 market horses that, under normal conditions, ^yould be regarded as 

 undesirable, if they were not positively unsaleable. Cheap horses 

 have been taken to cities from the country and questionable horses 

 on the ranges and farms and in the horse marts of the west have been 

 spirited away and sold if some question has occurred in regard to 

 their health, on account of the unusual prices that they bring. All 

 of this has resulted in the introduction of an unusual number of 

 glandered horses into rennsylvania. It has been found repeatedly 

 that horses afflicted with glanders have recently been brought into 

 the state and then, of course, cases occur among horses exposed to 

 contact with these. The following table shows the counties in whicli 

 glanders occurred, the number of horses condemned and the number 

 of horses exposed and tested with mallein. 



It will be observed that glanders occurred in 22 counties, that 

 1,826 horses were exposed and tested and that 283 were condemned 

 and destroyed. Since the largest number of shipped horses are 

 brought to the large cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, it hap- 

 pens, naturally that the largest number of cases were found in Phila- 

 dephia and Allegheny counties. The large number of cases found 

 in York county resulted from a shipment of tw^o carloads of range 

 horses received during the latter part of 1905. Many of these horses 



