REPORT. 



To the Slate Board of AfjricuUurc. 



1 have the honor to .submit the second seniianuiial re})()rt 

 of the ('attle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, as 

 l)rovided for in section 3 of chapter 11(5 of the Acts of 1902. 

 This report will be more in detail than the first semiannual 

 r.eport, made last July, and is intended to supplant the 

 annual report formerly made by the Board of Cattle Com- 

 missioners to the Legislature. 



In order to have it a complete report of the year's trans- 

 actions, it will be necessary to include in it the work done 

 by the Cattle Commission from Dec. 15, 1901, until it was 

 succeeded by the Cattle Bureau, April 15, 1902. The 

 annual report of the Cattle Commission has always been 

 carried from the 15th of one December until the 15th of the 

 December following, as it was impossible to bring it up to 

 the first of January in season to have it ready at the time 

 required. This plan will be followed here, with the excep- 

 tion that that portion relating to foot and mouth disease will 

 be brought up to the first of January. 



In addition to the ground covered by the reports of the 

 past few years, including work done toward the suppression 

 of tuberculosis among cattle, glanders among horses, symp- 

 tomatic anthrax, actinom3^cosis, rabies and infectious swine 

 diseases, this Bureau has had to deal with a small outbreak of 

 Texas fever, and also Avith a somewhat extensive outbreak 

 of foot and mouth disease. The latter, coming in the middle 

 of November, has taxed the resources of the force of the 

 ofiice to its utmost capacity. The report, therefore, will 

 deal with this outbreak fully, but will have to be very brief 

 in connection with other diseases, owing to the lack of time 

 necessary for preparing a full and detailed account of the 

 year's work. 



