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The above table shows 941 cases of glanders and farcy, 

 and 737 animals released. There are also 22 horses that 

 have not been released, as they are in stables where mallein 

 tests are being carried on and they have not yet ceased to 

 react, making a total of 1,700 horses and mules on the Cattle 

 Bureau books for 1908, the considerable number released 

 being due to the large amount of mallein testing done. 



The decrease in Worcester is very gratifying, as a few 

 years ago about 100 horses a year were killed or died there 

 with glanders. There was a milkman's stable in Shrewsbury 

 w^here there used to be glanders, and every little while a 

 horse with the disease was killed there. A couple of years ago 

 the horses in this stable were all mallein tested, and those 

 that reacted were retested once a month until they ceased to 

 react or showed physical evidence of disease and were killed. 

 These horses were used for peddling milk in Worcester, and 

 were evidently the cause of some of the trouble, as after this 

 place was cleaned up the disease has decreased steadily ever 

 since in that city. 



The table shows an increase in Lowell of 11 cases, but 7 

 of these were reported by the agent of the Cattle Bureau who 

 has been employed for the last year to inspect the horses 

 sent to the Thursday auction, and were brought from out of 

 town, therefore the real increase over the previous year has 

 been but 4 cases. 



During the year several cases have been j^rosecuted, the 

 offences being for breaking quarantine, removing a horse to 

 prevent its being inspected and disobeying an order of the 

 Chief of the Cattle Bureau, in all of which convictions have 

 been secured in the lower courts. Two appealed cases in 

 Middlesex County have been settled in the higher court, one 

 appealed case in Norfolk County remains undisposed of as 

 yet, and an appealed case from the Lawrence police court, 

 from October, 1907, still remains unsettled. 



The reports of the Tenderers, which they are required to 

 make from week to week under the provisions of section 111 

 of chapter 75, Revised Laws, as amended by chapter 243, 

 Acts of 1907, are of a great deal of value, as a number of 

 cases of glanders are reported by them every year which are 



