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DEPAKTMENTAL REPOETS. 



MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 



The miscellaneous division has a general supervision of the accounts 

 and other work of the Bureau of Animal Industry, as follows: Sala- 

 ries; reimbursement of expenses incurred by its officers and employees 

 in travel and at various stations; apparatus and supplies for the vari- 

 ous divisions, their laboratories, the experiment station, and quaran- 

 tine stations; all accounts of every character that .are paid from the 

 appropriation for the Bureau of Animal Industry; the preparation of 

 an itemized report to each Congress, showing in detail the character 

 of expenditures and the use of the appropriation ; the making out of 

 all appointments, transfers, promotions, furloughs, reinstatements, 

 resignations, and dismissals; the making of requisitions and informal 

 bids for all materials and supplies used throughout the work of the 

 Bureau, and the necessary letter writing incident thereto, together 

 with the supervision of the work of the animal quarantine stations. 

 This latter work includes the inspection and quarantine of imported 

 cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine, and the making of per- 

 mits for their importation and keeping the records pertaining to quar- 

 antines. The division also has charge of the preparation of replies to 

 numerous letters requesting information in regard to the diseases of 

 animals and poultry, their causes and treatment, and various other 

 matters pertaining to breeds, breeding, and care of domesticated ani- 

 mals, and allied subjects. 'This is the character of the routine work 

 performed each year. 



QUARANTINE OF IMPORTED ANIMALS. 



The variety of kinds and the number of ruminants other than cattle 

 and sheep imported during the fiscal year has been increased some- 

 what through the importations made more especially for exhibit at the 

 Pan-American Exposition. These animals have all been subjected 

 to inspection and quarantine, the length of the quarantine period 

 being fixed in accordance witm the requirements for the subdivision 

 of the class to which the animal belonged. 



The imports of animals from Canada not subject to detention at 

 quarantine stations comprised 39,572 cattle, 199,325 sheep, 3,227 horses, 

 435 hogs, 1 goat, 7 deer, and 3 elks — total, 242,570 animals. 



The following table shows the number and kinds of animals detained 

 in quarantine for the requisite time : 



Number of animals imported and quarantined at different stations, fiscal year 1901. 



