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It is recommended that all such food shall be sterilized before 

 being fed to the calves. 



In Europe, the sediment from the centrifugal separator is 

 considered especially dangerous, and it is advised, and in 

 some places required, that all such material shall be burned. 



Working upon these lines, the Board of Cattle Commis- 

 sioners is of the opinion that tuberculosis among cattle can 

 in time be very materially diminished, at a cost to the State 

 not greatly exceeding the expense of a thorough annual in- 

 spection of the herds, including taking out and paying for 

 the bad cases, with the added cost of keeping up a quarantine 

 against diseased cattle from other States ; and believes with 

 Bang, who says, " In some twenty years it will be possible 

 to go further and take more severe measures." 



Glanders. 



During the past year glanders and farcy have prevailed to 

 an extent that must be considered serious, if not even alarm- 

 ing. More cases or suspected cases of this dangerous disease 

 have been reported to the Cattle Commission than during 

 any year in its history, and this calls for the co-operation of 

 every lover of the horse and every veterinarian in the State 

 in the eflbrts of the Board to eradicate this loathsome malady. 



From Dec. 15, 1898, to Dec. 15, 1899, 614 cases of sus- 

 pected cases of glanders or farcy have been reported to the 

 commission; and of these, 543 have been destroyed as being 

 infected, and 71 have been released after a careful examina- 

 tion, and in some cases have been continued in quarantine 

 for some little time for further observation, if they showed 

 suspicious symptoms, and not allowed to go free until it was 

 certain they were not infected. 



The following shows the cities and towns from which cases 

 were reported and the number in each : — 



