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REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



cattle, at a cost of $67,695.93, an average of $25.55 per head; also 

 5,490 exposed 'cattle, at a cost of $131,227.74, an average of $23.90 per 

 head. 



It has been found necessary to disinfect 1,879 stables, stock-yards, 

 or other premises, and also to make post-mortem examinations upon 

 the carcasses of 43,176 bovine animals, of which 3,426 were found 

 diseased with pleuro-pneumonia. 



The total expenses of the pleuro-pneumonia work from January 1 

 to November 30, 1888, have been $481,586.55, of which $198.923.67 

 was paid for cattle purchased for slaughter, as either diseased or ex- 

 posed. The remainder constitutes the expense for inspection, disin- 

 fection, tagging, registering, and supervising the movement of cattle, 

 of post-mortem examinations, and of all the various expenses neces- 

 sary to insure the prompt discovery of this plague when it appears 

 m any herd, and to prevent the further extension of the infection. 



The following table shows a resume' of the pleuro-pneumonia work 

 from January 1 to November 30, 1888, as given in detail above : 



Table showing the work of tlie Bureau of Animal Industry for the eradication of 

 pleuro-pneumonia from January 1 to November 30, 1888. 



Resume of the expenditures in the pleuro-pneumonia ivork from January 1 to No- 

 vember 30, 1888. 



It will be seen from the above that there has been constant and 

 satisfactory progress during the year at all points where the disease 

 exists. The work has been heavy and expensive, and the expendi- 

 tures for the eleven months covered by the report for 1888 have been 

 greater than the appropriation for any fiscal year. It was only by so 

 planning that the most costly work would come in the latter part of 

 one fiscal year and at the beginning of another that the operations could 

 be sustained in an efiicient manner without an increased appropria- 



