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deputy to take charge of it. In addition to immunizing the hogs which 

 are found still unaffected, a deputy with official authority could roiuid 

 up the diseased animals, and keep them in such quarantine as to pre- 

 vent the spread of the disease from them to the neighboring farms. 

 Without this latter authority, immunizing work is bound to be far from 

 perfect. This plan was recommended by the Chief of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, under whose supervision the discovery of the hog 

 cholera serum was made. 



TEXAS FEVER. 



Texas fever infection was quite prevalent in Ripley, Oregon, New- 

 ton, and McDonald counties. Ripley county was in absolute quaran- 

 tine and cattle were not allowed to move until after November 1st, even 

 by inspection. The southern fourth of Oregon comity, and the western 

 third of Newton and McDonald comities were in quarantine, but move- 

 ment of some cattle was permitted on inspection. Our work during 

 the summer showed 275 lots of cattle in Ripley county, seventy-seven in 

 Oregon county, 238 in McDonald county, and ninety-five in Newton 

 county. These numbers do not include all the owners of milk cows in 

 Doniphan, Thayer, Southwest City, Neosho, and Seneca. 



With the view of completely eradicating the fever ticks from these 

 counties, and getting the quarantine removed, we put our whole force 

 to work on tick eradication early in the spring, and continued the work 

 until December 1st. In addition to the regular force we employed an 

 additional inspector each, for Oregcm and Ripley counties. Dr. L. D. 

 BrowTi was placed in charge in Newton county; Dr. H. C. Tuck in Mc- 

 Donald county; Mr. W. A. Norman in Oregon county; and I took 

 personal charge in Ripley county, and was assisted on the part of the 

 State by Mr. J. E. Taylor. The Federal Government, out of their tick 

 eradication appropriation, made by the last Congress, practically dupli- 

 cated our force of men, and in addition furnished about 100 barrels of 

 crude oil for use in spraying cattle. Of $10,350 available for the veter- 

 inary service for 1909, we spent $4,792.48 in our tick eradication work. 

 The salaries and expenses of the Federal officers amounted to $5,731. 

 The material furnished by the Federal Government amounted to 

 $1,000.00. A total of $11,523.48 was spent during the last summer in 

 tick eradication work. In Ripley county the emulsion and spray pumps 

 were furnished free, and the inspectors assisted in the spraying, and 

 supervised the work, so that all the cattle men had to do in any case was 

 to drive their cattle to convenient stations on the regular spraying dates. 

 In Oregon, county the same provisions were made, with the exception 

 that cattle owners were required to furnish the pumps. In Newton 



