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REPORT OF DR. MOORE. 



Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 15, 1902. 

 Mr. Geo. B. Ellis, Scc'y Missouri vState Board of Agriculture, Columbia, 



Mo. : 



Dear Sir — In response to your request of the 12th inst., have the 

 honor to submit the following as a brief report of the work done by me in 

 Kansas City and vicinity : 



From January 14th to December ist, 1902, there have been examined 

 about 1,200 horses and mules, 129 horses and 7 mules were found to be 

 afflicted with glanders and condemned. Of those condemned, 19 were 

 tested with mallein. Forty-three were destroyed by consent of the owner 

 without appraisement. In most instances the county court allowed par- 

 ties the sum of $5.00 for animals destroyed without appraisement. Thir- 

 teen visits have been made to inspect cattle and three to inspect horses out- 

 side of Kansas City. Two horses near Pleasant Hill, Mo., were found 

 to be afflicted with glanders, one was destroyed by consent of owner with- 

 out process of law. Four outbreaks of Texas fever were investigated, 

 one each at Belvidere, Belton, Holden and Marshall. About 400 cattle 

 were exposed and quarantined of which nearly 100 died. In each instance 

 the disease was limited by quarantine to the animals exposed before ar- 

 rival. 



The sources of contagion for the cases of glanders reported in Kan- 

 sas City are not often ascertainable, the cases occurring one here and one 

 there, but from what can be learned it seems probable that virus is con- 

 veyed from animal to animal by means of the public watering basins, which 

 are so constructed that the overflow is into a central pipe and the margin? 

 of the basin are not thereby washed and the virus carried away. The 

 citizens and officers of this city are co-operating by promptly reporting all 

 suspected cases and I believe that the disease is now very much less preva- 

 lent than during the summer. 



Very respectfully, 



R. C. MooRE, D. V. S., 

 Deputy State Veterinarian. 



ENFORCEMENT OF THE ANTI-BUTTERINE LAW. 



There have been a greater number of cases filed and a greater number 

 successfully prosecuted under this law this year than any previous year 

 since the law was enacted. In Kansas City the Inspector has obtained 

 evidence which resulted in the conviction of four cases in the Federal Court 

 for violation of the United States law, 17 cases have been filed under the 



