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Receipts of Lire Stock at Boston for Twelve Months ending Nov. SO, 

 1907. 



The number of horses received for the last six months of 

 the year was not ascertained in time to send the figures to 

 Washington, owing to the sad and untimely death in August 

 of Mr. A. D. Phelps, Mr. Dennen's able and faithful as- 

 sistant; but these figures have since been made up by his 

 successor, and are included in the table in order to make 

 the statistics complete. 



Miscellaneous Diseases. 

 In addition to rabies, glanders and bovine tuberculosis, 

 there have been a number of outbreaks of various diseases 

 usually classified in these reports under the heading of 

 " miscellaneous/' such as hog cholera, black leg, actinomy- 

 cosis and tuberculosis among swine. Where outbreaks of 

 hog cholera or swine plague have occurred, the usual course 

 has been pursued of quarantining the piggery until the sick 

 pigs died or recovered and the owner disinfected the prem- 

 ises. In outbreaks where there have been good-sized pig-, 

 ready for the shambles, the owners have been allowed to 



