REPORT 



To the State Board of Agriculture. 



The fourteenth scniianiiual report of the Chief of the 

 Cattle Bureau, as required by section 3 of chapter 110 of 

 the Acts of 1902, is herewith respectfully submitted to your 

 honorable Board. 



This report gives in detail an account of the work of the 

 Cattle Bureau for the fiscal year from Dec. 1, 1907, to Dec. 

 1, 1908. 



During the past year there have been a number of con- 

 ventions and conferences of special importance to the in- 

 terests represented by the Cattle Bureau, to which delegates 

 to represent the Commonwealth have been appointed by His 

 Excellency the Governor. 



The first one of these was a conference of the live stock 

 sanitary authorities of the l^ew England and some of the 

 eastern States, held at the Hotel Victoria, New York City, 

 March 12. At this meeting representatives of the cattle 

 commissions of Maine and New Hampshire were present, 

 also delegates from the Cattle Bureau of the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture, the secretary of the Rhode 

 Island State Board of Agriculture, three veterinarians from 

 the New York State Department of Agriculture, three dele- 

 gates from the New Jersey Tuberculosis Commission and 

 three veterinarians from the Pennsylvania Live Stock Sani- 

 tary Board, and also the Chief of the United States Bureau 

 of Animal Industry. Ilis Excellency the Governor ap- 

 pointed the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, Mr. C. A. Dennen 

 and Dr. Howard P. Rogers to represent Massachusetts at 

 this conference. 



While there is already in existence a body known as the 



