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tuberculosis and glanders where the animals can be dealt in and 

 the loss and damage covered up. 



This department has not given the disease the attention it de- 

 mands for the reason that the funds of the department are very 

 limited and emergencies of this kind cannot be met. Nothing fur- 

 ther could be done than to establish quarantine on an infected 

 herd from which little benefit could be derived as the disease is 

 readily spread by means not controlled by quarantine. 



The serum treatment has proven very beneficial where it has 

 been applied properly and great saving has resulted. Bad results 

 have been reported but in most cases it has been where the simul- 

 taneous method of treatment has been employed. The output of 

 serum by this department has been necessarily very limited for 

 the reason that the appropriation made for this purpose by the 

 legislature was not enough to employ necessary help for the bi- 

 ennial period for which it was intended to cover and the price of 

 the serum manufactured under this provision was made twenty 

 cents per ounce, which is about one-half the cost of manufacture. 

 The proper procedure to follow; tending to the eradication of 

 cholera would be the establishment of proper laboratories with 

 sufficient funds to carry on the manufacture of serum at a mod- 

 erate price or provide for the sale of such serum to perpetuate 

 its manufacture, this together with provisions for competent vet- 

 erinarians to control the disease in the field and some restriction 

 on the various proprietary serums would yield very satisfactory 

 results. 



The second outbreak of dourine in the state was reported to 

 this department in May, 1911. This outbreak involved a number 

 of stallions and mares in Taylor and Ringgold counties and bade 

 fair to cause considerable trouble as the department has no means 

 of purchasing and destroying diseased animals. The U. S. Bureau 

 of Animal Industry however answered our call for aid with their 

 usual prompt and unqualified support. 



EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 



During this biennial period, beginning April 26, 1911, and end- 

 ing June 30, 1912, this department has received three hundred 

 and thirty-nine official calls. Of these, seventy-two were calls 

 to investisrate glanders; ninety-four to investigate tubierculosis ; 

 fifteen to investigate scabies; fourteen to investigate rabies; 

 three to investigate cerebro-spinal meningitis ; nine to investigate 



