P.D. 123 



INTERSTATE MOVEMENT OF CATTLE 



The full effect of the law (Chapter 168, Acts of 1938), by which cattle 

 transported into the Commonwealth, if intended for dairy purposes, must have 

 been negative to an agglutination blood test for Bang's abortion disease, is 

 shown by the decrease in the number of cattle received interstate this year at 

 both the quarantine station at Brighton and points other than Brighton, the 

 first full year of operation under said law — namely, a grand total this year 

 of 21,637, as compared with 24,513 for the year 1938. 



Quarantine Station at Brighton 



The following tabulation is a record of receipts and disposition of dairy 

 cattle at Brighton for the year 1939: 



ORIGIN 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



New York 



Rhode Island 



Vermont . 



Massachusetts 



4,319 



1,116 



1 



4 



1,192 



6,632 

 2,138 



8,770 



DISPOSITION 



Connecticut 

 Massachusetts . 

 New Hampshire 

 Rhode Island . 

 Slaughtered 



Inter- 

 state State Total 



4—4 

 5,444 2,132 7,576 



4—4 

 1,179 6 1,185 



1—1 



6,632 2,138 8,770 



As a means of checking the accuracy of the blood tests as reported on cer- 

 tificates which accompanied the cattle arriving at Brighton, agglutination 

 blood tests were conducted at frequent intervals throughout the year by draw- 

 ing samples from cattle consigned by the different owners and arriving from 

 the several states. The findings obtained have not always proven as satisfac- 

 tory as should be expected, a fact which is being given careful consideration 

 and study. 



There were also received for slaughter at the Brighton station the following 

 diseased cattle: 



Tuberculin test reactors 

 Tuberculin test suspects 

 Bang's disease reactors 

 Bang's disease suspects 

 Actinomycosis 



These cattle were checked for identification, tagged, and released to slaugh- 

 tering establishments for immediate slaughter. 



Forty-four (44) head of Canadian cattle were received at the stock yard 

 station by rail and were released and allowed to proceed to the destination 

 named in the permits by which they were accompanied. 



Six hundred seventy-three (673) trucks and 3 railroad cars were cleaned, 

 washed, and disinfected under direct supervision of an employee of the Di- 

 vision. The sales barn is cleaned, washed, and disinfected at regular in- 

 tervals. 



One thousand six hundred seventy-three (1,673) head of cattle were given 

 hemorrhagic septicemia (shipping fever) treatments. This service is given 

 only upon request of the owners of cattle and a nominal fee is charged to 

 cover the cost of the biologic used. 



Arrivals at Points Other Than Brighton 

 Three thousand (3,000) permits, required by law to accompany cattle when 

 transported into Massachusetts (Division Order No. 43), were issued in 1939, 

 as compared with 3,729 in 1938. Of this number, 225 were for shipments of 



