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then returning to Columbia and sending a student from the 

 Agricultural College to apply the serum, you can readily see 

 that the expense of this control work would be entirely unreason- 

 able. Such a procedure seems so void of good business sense 

 that I have not undertaken hog cholera investigations at all. 



TEXAS FEVER. 



I am glad to report that the last area of any extent infested 

 with Texas fever ticks has been cleaned up. On November 1st 

 the federal quarantine on parts of Ripley county was released. 

 There are a few limited ticky areas yet in the State, but here- 

 after all such infestation can be controlled by farm quarantines, 

 and the Texas fever quarantine regulations are no longer of any 

 use. In fact, the regulations are not only useless, but are more 

 or less of a hindrance to the legitimate movement of cattle. I, 

 therefore, recommend that the Texas fever quarantine regula- 

 tions under date of August 19, 1912, be entirely rescinded. 

 There is no further necessity for these regulations as pertaining 

 to the movement of cattle within the State. The federal quar- 

 antine regulations will fully protect the State from ticky' cattle 

 from without. Our regulations are, therefore, a duplication of 

 those of the Federal Government and are entirely unnecessary. 

 There never has been a successful prosecution under these regu- 

 lations. All prosecutions for violation of the quarantine have 

 been brought in the federal courts, and, in most cases, have been 

 successful. Furthermore, there is a statute which is much more 

 binding and more easily enforced than these quarantine regula- 

 tions which specifically forbid anyone to drive ticky cattle into 

 or across this State. These regulations are, therefore, mani- 

 festly superfluous and should be recalled forthwith. 



SPLENDID PROGRESS IN TUBERCULOSIS ERADICATION WORK. 



During the past year Texas fever work in Southern Missouri 

 and hog cholera eradication work in Pettis county took almost 

 half of the time of our three regular deputies. For several 

 months during the year our tuberculosis eradication work came to 

 a standstill. Yet, considering everything, very satisfactory prog- 

 ress has been made. In looking over the results of this work for 

 several years, they are especially gratifying. Our plans in the 

 beginning were to take up the dairy inspection, co-operating 

 with different cities of this State. The city passed an ordinance 

 requiring the dairy inspection, and our force has supplied the 



