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REPORT OF D. E. SALMON, D. V. M., Chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try: 



Letter of transmittal 5 



Progress of the work of extirpating pleuro-pneurnonia 9 



Beef supply of the United States, and conditions governing the price of 



cattle 39 



United States neat-cattle quarantine 45 



Glanders 48 



Nature and prevention of hog cholera: investigations of 1887 63 



Etiology of infectious pneumonia in swine: investigations of 1887 86 



Experiments on the attenuation of hog cholera by heat: investigations 



of 1888 , 117 



Prevention of hog cholera 148 



Treatment of hog cholera 157 



Hog cholera in Sweden and Denmark 159 



Hog cholera in France 163 



THE TAPE-WORM DISEASE OF SHEEP OF THE WESTERN PLAINS: 



Investigations by Dr. Cooper Curtice .- 107 



INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF HOG CHOLERA IN THE UNITED STATES: 



Investigations by the Bureau 187 



CONDITION OF THE CATTLE INTERESTS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: 



Report of Agent H. M. Taylor 300 



NUMBER AND VALUE OF PURE-BRED CATTLE IN THE UNITED STATES: 



By E. W. Perry 339 



PAPERS ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBIT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 

 AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1889: 



Meat industries of the United States. By H.C. Clarke 359' 



Associated dairying in New England. By Herbert Myrick 375 



The dairy industry of the United States. By H. H. Wing 387 



Cattle and swine breeding and feeding in the United States. By Pro- 

 fessor E. G. Morrow 405 



Leather productions of America. By Isaac H. Bailey 419 



Comparative composition of American and European beef. By Professor 



Charles D. Woods 426 



OUTBREAKS OF SOUTHERN CATTLE FEVER IN MARYLAND: 



Report of Dr. Cooper Curtice 429 



ANTHRAX AND SOUTHERN FEVER AMONG CALIFORNIA CATTLE: 



Report of Dr. Thomas Bowhill ' 443 



DESTRUCTION OF CALIFORNIA CATTLE BY VARIOUS DISEASES: 



Report of Inspector A. S. Mercer 452 



SIMULIUM, OR BUFFALO GNATS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR INJURI- 

 OUS EFFECTS UPON ANIMALS: 



Investigations by Prof. F. M. Webster 456 



LIVE-STOCK INTERESTS OF MARYLAND: 



Report of Dr. F. W. Patterson , 466 



BLACK LEG : 



Its symptons and treatment 471 



EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF CORRESPONDENTS. 473 



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