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ment of tlie number of herds and auiinals examined duriug: tlie year, 

 and tbe number found affected with pleuro-piieumouia. The details of 

 these inspections "svill be found in the forthcoming second annual report 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



SUMMARY OF IXSrECTIOXS. 



SUMMARY liT EECtAED TO PLEUEO-PXEUMONIA. 



The danjjer from pleuro-pneumonia west of the Alleghany IMountains 

 has been greatly reduced since the First Annual Report of this Bureau 

 was presented. Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri are now free from this plague. 

 Much progress has been made in freeing Kentucky from it, and it is 

 believed that, providing the present quarantine measures can be kept 

 up for a few months longer, the disease will soon disappear in this State. 

 The shipment of calves and thorough-bred animals from sections of the 

 East liable to be infected has its periods of increase and decline, as with 

 other branches of traffic; as a whole, however, it has been increasing 

 and will continue to increase from year to year. It is now an important 

 part of the trade of the country, and has reached such proportions that 

 it can be neither prohibited nor materially modified by the local quar- 

 antine regulations of the several States ; and for the same reason it is 

 impossible to keep such a supervision of it as will protect the West froqi 

 the introduction of disease. So long as pleuro-pneumonia is allowed to 

 exist in the East it may be accepted as a selfrcvident propositoin that 

 the AVest will be subject to invasions of it, and that no local regulations, 

 L'un protect against them. 



As to the prevalence of this plague in the East, the details of inspec- 

 tions show that it exists where it has been reported to exist for years. 

 The infected territory has not been noticeably increased or diminitihed. 

 The inspections were undertal^en to furnish data which would serve 

 to indicate the measures and the expenditure that would be required for 

 the extirpation of the contagion. They cannot be taken as showing ac- 

 curately the number of cattle v^'hich have been aifected Nvith pleuro- 

 pneumonia during the year, but simply as the number of cases of disease 

 which the inspectors saw by going once or twice over the territory, 



