SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 495 



Considering that the outbreak appeared first in a densely popu- 

 lated live stock community in the Central West ; that within thirty 

 days after the disease was diagnosed it had been carried to both the 

 Atlantic and Pacific coasts and affected herds had been found in 

 seventeen states and the District of Columbia ; that before its prog- 

 ress was stopped it had spread to twenty-two states and the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, and it had even appeared on the ranches of Mon- 

 tana, the eradication of this extensive outbreak is an achievement 

 that has not been paralleled in any other country, and this great 

 service to the live stock industry will be appreciated more in the 

 future than it is at present. 



The accompanying table gives the statistics of the outbreak. 



