126 Twenty-Second Annual Report of the 



Among other communicable diseases affecting domestic animals 

 might be mentioned infectious anaemia, contagious abortion 

 swamp fever, pnd septicaemia hemorrhagica, all of which have 

 received more or less attention. 



Swamp fever has been reported from several portions of the 

 State, but its positive diagnosis is confined to a portion of St. 

 Lawrence and Franklin counties, referred to in report of the 

 previous year. Quarantine upon certain townships in those coun- 

 ties is still in effect and will be continued for an indefinite period. 



Veal inspection work in this Bureau was almost entirely 

 stopped, since inspectors usually engaged in that work were as- 

 signed to duties in connection with footrand-mouth outbreak. 

 There have been seized during the year, however, a total of 414 

 carcasses, or parts of same, and there have been referred to counsel 

 for attention a total of 327 cases. A considerable number of the 

 seizures made were confiscations where no prosecution was at- 

 tempted, while in other cases the evidence was incomplete or not 

 sufficient to warrant prosecution. From the information at hand 

 it appeared that this traffic in calves under four weeks of age in 

 violation of the Agricultural Law was still being carried on. This 

 is largely because the penalties inflicted for violation of this Law 

 are not sufficient! v drastic. 



bovine tuberculosis 



The statistics of this office in connection with tuberculosis 

 in cattle for the fiscal year 1914-15 indicate progress in the 

 control of this disease. A comparison of the data collected 

 for some years will show that there has been a continuous 

 decrease in the percentage of tuberculous animals found 

 within the State as a result of tuberculin test. This is evi- 

 dently due to a number of influences, and is an indication that 

 the number of animals affected with the disease is slowly diminish- 

 ing. It was explained in the report of last year that these statis- 

 tics were based not only on official tests made, which comprise 

 suspected herds almost exclusively, but also on private tests of 

 animals within the State, the percentages being obtained by a 

 combination of both. For some years this procedure has been fol- 

 lowed in estimating the number of tubercular animals, and we 



