250 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Cattle Bureau Order No. 16. 



Commonwealth of Massachttsetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



State House, Boston, Nov. 2, 1908. 



To Persons bringing Cattle into Massachusetts, and All Others whom 



it may concern. 

 Seetion 5 of Cattle Bureau Order No, 15 is hereby amended so as 

 to provide as follows : — 



1. Any person obtaining a permit to ship or drive neat cattle into 

 Massachusetts from other States, upon which a tuberculin test is 

 required, who desires to have such animals tested before shipment, 

 will be allowed to have this done if he obtains permission from the 

 Chief of the Cattle Bureavi of the State Board of Agriculture to 

 employ an agent of the Cattle Bureau to make such tests at the ex- 

 pense of the owner or shipper, such agent to be designated by the 

 Chief of the Cattle Bureau and supplied with tuberculin by him. 



2. Certificates of tuberculin test made outside the Commonwealth 

 by said agents thus supi^lied with tuberculin may be accepted by the 

 Chief of the Cattle Bureau in lieu of certificates of tuberculin test 

 made by agents of the Cattle Bureau upon cattle after an'ival in 

 the Conmaonwealth, if upon examination such certificates are found 

 to be satisfactory. 



3. This order does not apply to neat cattle shipped to the Stock 

 Yards at Brighton^ Watertown or Somerville. 



4. This order shall be jjublished by sending a copy to each in- 

 spector of animals in the Commonwealth, and by furnishing a copy 

 to each shipper of cattle into the Commonwealth upon permits issued 

 under the provisions of section 1, Cattle Bui'eau Order No. 15. 



This order shall take effect upon its approval. 



Austin Peters, 

 Chief of Cattle Bureau. 

 Approved in Council, Nov. 11, 1908, 



E. F. Hamlin, 

 Executive Secretary. 



Miscellaneous Diseases. 

 In addition to rabies, glanders and bovine tuberculosis 

 there have been a number of outbreaks of various other 

 diseases, usually classified in these reports under the heading 

 of " miscellaneous," such as hog cholera, blackleg or symp- 

 tomatic anthrax, anthrax, actinomycosis and tuberculosis 

 among swine. 



