﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  87 
  

  

  the 
  help 
  of 
  the 
  farmers 
  and 
  breeders 
  we 
  ha\ 
  e 
  been 
  able 
  speedily 
  

   to 
  suppress 
  outbreaks 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  diseases 
  which 
  we 
  had 
  to 
  deal 
  with 
  during 
  1899 
  were 
  rabies, 
  

   black 
  quarter, 
  infectious 
  mammitis, 
  verminous 
  bronchitis, 
  swine 
  

   plague 
  and 
  actinomycosis. 
  Quite 
  an 
  extensive 
  outbreak 
  of 
  rabies 
  

   occurred 
  at 
  Buffalo 
  which 
  required 
  careful 
  vigilance 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  Department 
  and 
  local 
  authorities 
  to 
  check. 
  All 
  dogs 
  in 
  

   that 
  district 
  were 
  quarantined 
  and 
  inspectors 
  placed 
  there 
  to 
  see 
  

   that 
  orders 
  and 
  regulations 
  were 
  rigidly 
  enforced. 
  To 
  make 
  sure 
  

   that 
  the 
  disease 
  was 
  accurately 
  diagnosed. 
  Professor 
  Moore, 
  bac- 
  

   teriologist 
  at 
  the 
  State 
  Veterinary 
  College 
  at 
  Cornell, 
  inoculated 
  

   several 
  healthy 
  animals 
  with 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  brain 
  and 
  spinal 
  cords 
  

   of 
  cows 
  and 
  dogs 
  tliat 
  died 
  of 
  rabies, 
  and 
  in 
  every 
  case 
  the 
  inocu- 
  

   lated 
  animals 
  developed 
  paralytic 
  rabies. 
  

  

  The 
  outbreak 
  of 
  rabies 
  this 
  vear 
  can 
  be 
  confined 
  to 
  Eiie 
  and 
  

   Niagara 
  counties, 
  while 
  last 
  year 
  it 
  was 
  confined 
  to 
  Saratoga 
  and 
  

   Columbia 
  counties. 
  The 
  quarantine 
  in 
  Saratoga 
  and 
  Columbia 
  

   counties 
  was 
  successful, 
  as 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  no 
  outbreak 
  there 
  this 
  

   year 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  great 
  confidence 
  that 
  the 
  quarantines 
  in 
  Erie 
  

   and 
  Magara 
  counties 
  this 
  year 
  will 
  prove 
  equally 
  as 
  successful. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  year 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  some 
  difficulty 
  within 
  the 
  State 
  

   with 
  the 
  disease 
  known 
  as 
  sheep 
  scabies. 
  Much 
  of 
  that 
  difficulty 
  

   came 
  from 
  animals 
  supposed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  brought 
  into 
  the 
  State 
  

   through 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  stock 
  yards. 
  This 
  was 
  evidenced 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  

   that 
  many 
  farmers 
  who 
  had 
  bought 
  their 
  stock 
  of 
  sheep 
  out 
  of 
  

   those 
  yards 
  found 
  that, 
  after 
  a 
  given 
  lengih 
  of 
  time, 
  their 
  entire 
  

   flock 
  was 
  infested 
  with 
  the 
  disease. 
  With 
  the 
  monev 
  at 
  the 
  com- 
  

   mand 
  of 
  this 
  Department, 
  I 
  found 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  practical 
  for 
  me 
  to 
  

   undertake 
  to 
  establish 
  such 
  supervision 
  or 
  surveillance 
  at 
  those 
  

   yards 
  as 
  would 
  be 
  effectual 
  in 
  stopping 
  this. 
  I, 
  therefore, 
  wrote 
  

   the 
  authorities 
  at 
  that 
  yard 
  requesting 
  them 
  to 
  establish 
  a 
  sheep 
  

   dip, 
  and 
  have 
  all 
  sheep 
  di})ped 
  coming 
  into 
  or 
  through 
  those 
  yards 
  

   into 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  The 
  superintendent 
  responded 
  by 
  

   complying 
  with 
  the 
  request, 
  so 
  that 
  now 
  the 
  sheep 
  coming 
  through 
  

   those 
  yards 
  are 
  all 
  properly 
  treated 
  and 
  danger 
  from 
  this 
  disease 
  

   from 
  that 
  source 
  is 
  reduced 
  to 
  the 
  minimum. 
  

  

  