504 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Section 39. In all stock yards within this Commonwealth said 

 Texan, Mexican, Cherokee or other Indian cattle, which the cattle com- 

 missioners decide ma}- spread contagious disease, shall be kejit in dif- 

 ferent pens from those in which other cattle are kept. 



Section 40. Any person or persons violating the provisions of the 

 two preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than 

 twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. 



As these pens and this street are being used for cattle from dis- 

 tricts infected with Texas fever, the Massachusetts Cattle Com- 

 missioners forbid the bringing of any neat cattle upon these 

 premises except those intended for immediate slaughter. 



Austin Peters, Cliairinan^ 

 L. F. Herrick, Secretary^ 

 C. A. Dennen, 



Board of Cattle Commissioners. 

 Boston, June 26, 1899. 



Not long after posting this notice a man with three young 

 cattle, a two-year-old bull, a two-year-old heifer and a year- 

 ling heifer, two of which were in a wagon, had the wagon 

 break down near one of the pens used for the quarantined 

 cattle, and he drove them into it while he took the wagon to 

 be repaired. When he returned for the cattle his attention 

 was called to the order on the fence, and he had to have them 

 killed and take their beef value. This is all the trouble the 

 commission has had over Texas fever the last year. 



Many interesting experiments are being tried at the agri- 

 cultural experiment stations in Texas, Missouri and Louisiana, 

 in connection with the communication of Texas fever, and 

 immunizing northern cattle of improved breeds when taken 

 to points in the south for the purpose of improving the native 

 stock ; but in Massachusetts the main object in connection 

 with this disease seems to be, for the present at least, to 

 prevent its introduction during the summer months. 



Symptomatic Anthrax. 



An outbreak of symptomatic anthrax occurred in the 



northern part of Ashburnham in February and early in 



March. It was reported to the commission by Dr. O. F. 



Lord of Fitchburg, February 28, who wrote as follows: — 



