No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. ai5 



The 39 A'ouno- animals were given preventive inoculation 

 with the Parke-Davis " blacklegoicls," by ]VIr. Dennen and 

 Dr. C. B. Shaw, the inspector of animals, and those that died 

 were buried. No more cases occurred among the young 

 cattle, but an owner of one of the older cows reported in the 

 autumn that he had lost a ^ouno- cow which he thouolit died 

 of the same disease as the young cattle. It was explained 

 to him tliat the older animals were not given a protective 

 inoculation, as usually mature animals seemed to be immune 

 from the disease ; and it was regretted, for his sake, that 

 the young cow he lost did not happen to enjoy immunit3^ 



Cases have been reported in Princeton and Hubbardston 

 during previous ^^ears, but there had not been any trouble 

 in these places worth mentioning for the past two or three 

 seasons, until last spring. In May Dr. J. Harden Stimson, 

 the inspector of animals in Princeton, reported that 6. young- 

 cattle had died in a pasture owned by a farmer in Sudbury. 

 Dr. A. S. Cleaves of Gardner, an agent of the Cattle Bureau, 

 was sent to Princeton with a supply of " blacklegoids," and 

 the necessary instrument for placing them under the animals' 

 skins. He found that originally there had been 22 animals 

 in the pasture, of which (> had died. Protective inoculation 

 was given to 10 head, 9 of them between eight and eighteen 

 months old, and 1 a four-year-old cow. There were 6 older 

 cows in the pasture which were not inoculated, as Dr. 

 Cleaves was of the opinion that they were old enough to be 

 immune from the disease. The animals given protective 

 inoculation did well, and no further deaths have been 

 reported. 



A case supposed to have been symptomatic anthrax was 

 reported in Leominster in July, in a cow ; but upon investi- 

 gation it was thought that she died from being overheated. 



Texas Fever. 

 There has not been an outbreak of Texas fever in Massa- 

 chusetts since the summer of 1902. Durinjj the summer 

 months any cattle that are brought from infected districts in 

 the west for slaughter are forl)idden by law to be driven 

 upon the highways in this State. If any Texas cattle are 



