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has resulted in not only hotter protection to the live stock 

 interests of the State the past season, but also to partial 

 remuneration to our cattle owners for the animals they lost 

 from this disease the year before, as well as to those in a 

 sister State. 



Experiments have been carried on by the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry in dipping cattle to destroy the ticks, and 

 thus render it safe to ship cattle from the fever-infected 

 districts into northern States at any season of the year. 

 That is, believing that the disease is carried from infected 

 animals to healthy ones only through the medium of the 

 ticks, it is thought that by dipping the cattle in some prep- 

 aration that will kill the ticks they can then mingle with 

 northern creatures with safety. If this method proves suc- 

 cessful and is extensively adopted, the danger of outbreaks 

 of Texas fever in our northern herds during the summer 

 months will have become a thing of the past. It is too soon, 

 however, to know positively whether this method will prove 

 practicable, or not ; meanwhile, enforcing the rules and 

 regulations requiring * ' quarantine cattle " to be kept apart 

 from northern cattle, driven over separate chutes and yarded 

 in pens set aside for them during the portion of the year 

 when there are no killing frosts, will serve to prevent out- 

 breaks of this disorder, although it does not allow of as free 

 a traffic in cattle as can exist if dipping proves to be a 

 success. 



Glanders. 



Since issuing the last report glanders has continued to be 

 quite prevalent, although there has been a falling off in the 

 number of cases reported to the Board of Cattle Commis- 

 sioners from that of 1897. 



From Dec. 15, 1897, to Dec. 15, 1898, 428 horses have 

 been reported to the Board as having glanders and farcy, or 

 suspected of having glanders or farcy. Included in this 

 number are 2 which had not been disposed of at the time of 

 making the last report. One of these was released from 

 quarantine as free from disease ; the other was taken out of 

 quarantine by its owner, who departed with his property to 

 Connecticut, contrary to law, — his exact destination was 



