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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



It will be seen from the above table that reports have 

 been made by 14 rendering companies, the total number 

 received being 185, including 428 animals. Those in 

 Boston number 142 ; as the Boston board of health has full 

 charge of glanders and farcy in the city limits, the com- 

 mission has nothing to do with these cases ; the number of 

 cases reported includes Boston simply to show the condition 

 of affairs for the whole State. Outside of Boston, 286 cases 

 were reported by the rendering companies ; of these, 94 had 

 not been previously reported to the Board, and most of 

 them were not subsequently reported. In these cases the 

 inspector of animals in the town where each such case 

 occurs is immediately notified to see that the owner of the 

 horse has properly disinfected his stable, and, if any horses 

 are kept there, to examine them and see if they are healthy. 

 This system is of great assistance in the endeavor to check 

 the spread of the disease. The Tenderers' reports do not 

 include Mr. Bartlett's establishment in Worcester, as he 

 reports all the cases he receives directly to Mr. Herrick, and 

 the horses condemned by order of the commission in that 

 city are killed there. 



No authentic cases of glanders in man have been called to 



