REPORT OF THE CfflEF OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL 



INDUSTRY. 



Silt : I have the honor to transmit herewith my report, which con- 

 tains a statement of the more important work accomplished by the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry during- the past year. For many interest- 

 ing- details connected with this work, and for the reports of the agents 

 and inspectors, I must refer you to the Second Annual lleport of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. 



D. E. SALMON, D. V. M., 

 CJiief of the iJureau of Animal Industry. 



Hon. ISTOKMAN J. COLMAN, 



Commissioner of Agriculture. 



ACTION TAKEN IN EEGAED TO PLEURO -PNEUMONIA. 



At the time my last annual report was submitted there was in prog- 

 ress in the Western States the first outbreak of contagious i^leuro-pneu- 

 monia which had ever invaded that section of the country. Although 

 the disease seemed to be under control in Ohio and Illinois, there were 

 many reasons to fear that some infected herds might have escaped dis- 

 covery, and there were grave apprehensions that the contagion would 

 be allowed to spread from the affected herd in Kentucky. The owners 

 of this herd assumed an unfriendly attitude towards the officers of the 

 Bureau from the time the first investigations were made, and were so 

 evidently determined to save themselves from loss without regard to 

 the safety of their neighbors or that of the country at large as to make 

 it reasonably certain that the trouble would be disseminated by their 

 cattle in spite of all that could be done under either the national or State 

 laws to prevent it. They employed able counsel to protect their inter- 

 ests, and demanded complete compensation for all loss to which they 

 might be subjected in elibrts to isolate the contagion, even asking that 

 the cost of feeding the herd while in quarantine should be assumed by 

 the Bureau. 



The inspections in the Eastern States had demonstrated the prevalence 

 of the same disease in the vicinity of New York City and Brooklyn, and 

 in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the District of Colum- 

 bia, and Virginia. The experiments and other investigations were also 

 successful in demonstrating beyond question the contagiousness of this 

 atiection and its identity in all of its characters with the contagious 

 pleuro-pneumonia of Europe. 



In this report the history of these outbreaks and the account of our 

 investigations will be resumed at the point where it was necessary to 

 close them last year. 



PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN KENTUCKY. 



As there was no law among the statutes of Kentucky which had been 

 framed with such an emergency in view as occurred by the introduction 



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