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of glanders. All cases reported were investigated by Dr. R. C. 

 Moore, Deputy State Veterinarian, and all animals found affected 

 with glanders were quarantined and later destroyed by the sheriff. 

 The water was shut off from the public watering basins. The re- 

 sults were highly satisfactory, and there was a gradual decrease 

 in the number of cases each month, until the following April, when 

 there were none reported. Following this the water was turned 

 on again, and the number of cases of glanders almost simultan- 

 eously began to increase. Since then the story has been the same. 

 With the water shut off, the number of cases of glanders has de- 

 creased. With it turned on, the number of cases has increased. 



The watering basins in Kansas City, are so constructed as to 

 allow teams of horses to approach them from different directions. 

 They are circular, about four feet high and about forty inches in 

 diameter. When a number of horses are drinking from one of 

 these basins at the same time, their noses are only a few inches 

 apart. If one of these horses happens to be affected with glanders, 

 it may convey the disease to all the others in a few minutes' time. 

 In all other outbreaks of glanders over the State, for the past eight 

 years, all dangerous watering troughs have been promptly dis- 

 pensed with, and the outbreaks have been completely stamped out. 

 As long as the present type of watering trough is maintained in 

 Kansas City, there is no hope of controlling glanders. In justice 

 to the balance of the State, and especially to the farming com- 

 munity adjacent to Kansas City, where a number of outbreaks of 

 glanders have occurred by infection direct from the city, some rem- 

 edy ought to be applied. Unless the dangerous type of watering 

 basin is abolished so that the disease may be controlled in the city, 

 a quarantine restricting the movement of horses into and out of 

 the city is a necessity. 



HOG CHOLERA. 



Since September, 1902, there have been 880 shipments of hogs, 

 diseased with cholera, from this State to the public markets. Each 

 of these shipments represented a loss in the locality from which 

 it came. In some cases this local loss was small. In a number of 

 cases it was very large. The loss in one county from which only 

 a single shipment of diseased hogs came, amounted to at least $150,- 

 000.00. Another county, which was swept over by an outbreak of 

 the cholera, sent only two shipments of diseased hogs to the mar- 

 ket. Two other counties which had extensive outbreaks and con- 



