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come from swampy ground, perhaps it would be better to burn it 

 than to feed it to young stock. I hope, however, that you will 

 not have any more trouble, but think it would be better to take 

 every precaution possible. 



Also avoid taking an animal that is dead along near a brook 

 which may flow down to a neighbor's farm, as the disease might 

 be spread in this way to his land. 



Yours truly, Austin Peters, 



Chairman. 



As nothing more has been reported to the commission 

 concerning this outbreak, it is believed that there were no 

 more cases. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington prepares 

 an attenuated virus for protective inoculation for sympto- 

 matic anthrax or "black leg" in cattle, as does also the 

 Pasteur Company of Chicago. If any farmer should have 

 trouble from this disease during the coming year, and will 

 report the matter at once to the commission, the Board will 

 obtain a supply of the material for the protective inoculation, 

 and furnish the services of a veterinarian to see that the 

 work is properly done. In order to be of value, the out- 

 break of the disease should be reported immediately, to 

 allow time to furnish the protective treatment to susceptible 

 animals before there is an opportunity for them to develop 

 the malady in a fatal form. 



Actinomycosis. 



Actinomycosis was added to the list of diseases to be con- 

 sidered contagious by the last legislature. Under the law 

 the Cattle Commission has the power to kill animals suffer- 

 ing from this disease without appraisal or pa3'ment. It does 

 not seem necessary in all cases to order such animals de- 

 stroyed ; but in advanced cases, where the animal is ema- 

 ciated and evidently suffering from the diseased condition 

 of the jaw bone, not only as a result of the pain, but the 

 inability to eat, also, it seems only an act of humanity to 

 kill such a creature and forbid the sale of the flesh. 



In some cases actinomycosis or "lumpy jaw" may be 

 associated with tuberculosis in the same animal. Occasion- 

 ally it is found in the udder, and when located in this organ 



