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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



in person the numerous calls in relation to suspected cases 

 of glanders and farcy, received from local inspectors, health 

 authorities and various other persons. 



During the year the Board has received notification of two 

 hundred and fifty of such suspected cases ; of these, two hun- 

 dred and six have been condemned and killed and forty-four 

 have been released. All cases of this nature that have been 

 received have been attended to, and in every case that has 

 been destroyed post-mortem examination has shown the 

 disease. 



The condemned animals were found in the following-named 

 cities and towns. The asterisk shows towns where same dis- 

 ease was found in 1894. 



Abington, 



* Amesbury, 

 Amherst, 



* Arlington, 

 Attleborough, 

 Ashburnham, 



* Boston, 

 Braintree, 



* Brockton, 



* Cambridge, 



* Canton, 

 Charlestown, 



* Chelmsford, 

 Chesterfield, 



* Chicopee, 

 Clinton, 

 Dedham, 



* Everett, 



East Longmeadow, 

 Fall River, 

 Fitchburg, 



* Franklin, 



* Gardner, 



* Grafton, 

 Groveland, 



* Harvard, 



* Haverhill, 



* Holyoke, 



* Hopkinton, 



* Lawrence, 

 Lee, 



* Lexington, 

 Lowell, 



* Lynn, 



* Maiden, 

 Mattapoisett, 



* Millbury, 

 *Neeclham, 



* Xewton, 



* Northampton, 

 North Andover, 

 Pittsfield, 



Quincy, 



* Somerville, 

 Southbridge, 

 Southborough, 



* Springfield, 



* Stoughton, 

 Stockbridge, 

 Swansea, 

 Shelburne Falls, 



* Tannton, 

 Ware, 



* Westport, 

 Wayland, 

 Walthani, 

 Wellesley, 

 Webster, 



* Whitman, 

 West Springfield, 



* Worcester. 



A comparison of these statistics with those given in this 

 same connection in the report for 1894 shows that in the same 

 number of towns there have been twenty more cases reported 

 and forty-six more animals destroyed this year than last ; and 



