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cause the inspection of herds producing market milk, and 

 the removal therefrom of all animals exhibitino; the sliohtest 

 symptoms of this disease. During the year, cattle com- 

 missions and veterinarians at the West have called the atten- 

 tion of the Board to the existence there of a contagious 

 disease technically known as Actinomycosis or " lumpy jaw." 

 The disease is comparatively new in this country, and, as it 

 spreads rapidly, is much to be feared, though not so fatal 

 and destructive as diseases of pulmonary organs. On 

 the 7th of March a communication was received conveying 

 the information that a car-load of cattle infected by it, and in 

 which were several advanced cases, had been shipped to the 

 East, and, as was believed, to our State. The information was 

 from such a source that it appeared to be our duty to guard 

 against the danger by seizure and quarantine, when the 

 animals reached our territory. But we failed to find them, 

 and it is more than probable that their owners learned that 

 their reputation had preceded them, and their final destina- 

 tion was changed to some other market. There is no doubt 

 about the character of the disease and its prevalence among 

 cattle in some sections of the West, and the need of watch- 

 fulness by our stock owners and officials to prevent its 

 appearance in our State. 



Early in July Western officials notified us that Texan cat- 

 tle, direct from the plains, were being transported in large 

 numbers by the usual channels of transit to the Eastern sea- 

 board, and were leaving a trail of Spanish fever along their 

 routes of travel, to avoid which we must be on our guard. 

 Therefore orders were immediately issued to all our railroad 

 officials whose lines had Western connections and which were 

 used in transporting Western products, to stop all such cattle 

 Avhen they reached our soil within the State lines. This 

 resulted in preventing their appearance here, and we escaped 

 losses from which some of the States suflered. 



Horses. 



As in former years, the only contagious disease which has 



appeared among this class of our animals has been glanders ; 



and the number infected by it which have been destroyed by 



our order has been fifty-seven, which is fourteen less than 



