REPORT. 



To the State Board of Agncultnrc. 



The sixth semiannual rc})ort of the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau, as required by section o of chapter IK) of the Acts 

 of 1902, is herewith respectfully submitted to your honor- 

 able Board. 



The law requires that a report shall be made semiannu- 

 ally, and in order to comply with the requirements of the 

 statute one is sulnnitted at the summer meeting of the Board, 

 but it is necessarily brief and incomplete, as it can con- 

 tain but a partial review of the j'ear's work. The report 

 made at the Avinter meeting is intended to be a full and 

 detailed statement of the doings of the (Jattle Bureau for 

 the year. 



The year of the Cattle Bureau commences the IGth of 

 December of one year and closes the 15tli of December the 

 following one, in order to allow sufficient time for closing 

 the books and preparing the report in season to have it 

 ready for your consideration at this meeting. 



The report now presented includes the work performed in 

 connection Avith tuberculosis in cattle and glanders in horses 

 during the entire year, together with a short account of such 

 other diseases of a communicable or infectious character as 

 may have been called to the attention of the (battle Bureau 

 and investigated by it. 



A financial statement is submitted below, but, as the 

 books are brought up only to December 15, it does not 

 show the exact standing of the Bureau, but only the amount 

 expended u^) to that time and the balance then on liand. 

 When all outstanding accounts come; in at the first of the 

 year it will be found that a small deficiency in the appropri- 



