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quarantine. On account of such permits being in conflict with the law 

 of the State, none of the requests were granted. It is claimed that the 

 disease is easily cured, and if this be the case the owners of affected bands 

 of sheep in the west should give them proper treatment and cure them, 

 and not ask for permits to ship them into this State in a diseased con- 

 dition. The rigid enforcement of a law forbidding the shipment of dis- 

 eased sheep will undoubtedly have a strong tendency to cause those who 

 own affected bands of sheep to administer proper treatment and cure 

 the disease. 



GLANDERS. 



During the year eighty-six cases of glanders were found in Kansas 

 City, sixteen in St. Louis and four in the rest of the State. There were 

 only 106 cases in all. Probably no other State in the Union w^ould show 

 so few cases of glanders. Official reports of many of the smaller states 

 show as high as eight or nine hundred cases. 



You will note that there were more horses condemned in Kansas 

 City on account of glanders this year than last year. This may be ac- 

 counted for from the fact that the veterinarians perfected an organization 

 and worked in co-operation with the team owners' association in locating 

 as many cases as possible. Through the combined efforts of the local 

 veterinary association and the team owners' association, the authorities 

 of Kansas City have been induced to do away with the public watering 

 fountains, which for so many years have been a source of infection, and 

 in all probability the number of cases of glanders in Kansas City will 

 be greatly reduced within another year. 



HOG CHOLERA. 



Hog cholera is still more or less prevalent in all parts of the State. 

 It is my opinion that with the proper application of hog cholera serum 

 and prompt rounding up and quarantining of diseased lots of hogs that 

 the disease can be completely eradicated from the State and all losses 

 from it entirely stopped. I wish to repeat my recommendations of 1909 

 and 1910 to the effect that the Board make arrangements with the Ex- 

 periment Station for a supply of serum to be kept in the hands of com- 

 petent deputies located in all parts of the State for use in the prompt 

 suppression of local outbreaks of hog cholera. By making this arrange- 

 ment and having it thoroughly understood among hog raisers that we 

 will promp+ly take charge of an outbreak of cholera, we are sure of their 

 co-operation in suppressing this disease. 



V\) lo tlic pi-eseut time it 1i;is been unsafe to allow the shipping of 



