BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



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There were also imported through the port of New York and quar- 

 antined, under the supervision of the superintendent of the Garfield 

 quarantine station, the following: Antelopes, 4; buffalo, 4; giraffe, 

 1; guanacos, 2; aoudads, 2; nilgaus, 2; camels, 16; goats, 9; alpacas, 

 2; chamois, 1; deer, 37; zebu, 1; llamas, 9; gazelles, 3; trick bull, 1; 

 other wild animals, 24 — total, 118. Add to this the animals reported 

 in the table above, we have a total of 1,283 imported animals that 

 were quarantined. 



An official veterinarian was stationed at London, England, in 

 accordance with the requirements of Bureau of Animal Industry order 

 No. 79, issued by this Department under date of November 10, 1900, 

 which provides for the testing with tuberculin by an inspector of this 

 Department of all cattle over six months old which are to be imported 

 into the United States. This official has tested, in various parts of 

 Great Britain, 161 cattle, for which a permit was desired for shipment 

 to the United States. Of these, 18 were rejected and 143 passed. In 

 Canada the veterinarians of this Department tested with tuberculin 

 491 cattle, of which 39 were rejected and 452 passed. 



OUTBREAK OF MALADIE DU COIT. 



During the last quarter of the fiscal year the work of eradicating an 

 imported infectious venereal disease of horses known as maladie du 

 coit, or dourine, was inaugurated, but owing to the extent of area and 

 the semi wild condition of much of the country over which the disease 

 had spread, as comprised in the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian 

 agencies, South Dakota, and parts of Nebraska and Wyoming, little 

 was accomplished beyond the organization of the work. A large num- 

 ber of range horses were rounded up, corralled, and inspected previous 

 to July 1, among which 12 were found to be affected with the disease. 

 These, comprising 2 stallions and 10 mares, were appraised through 

 agreement with the owners and subsequently slaughtered. 



Animals found diseased with maladie du coit and killed, and amount of indemnity 



paid. 



The following outline of a report received from Dr. W. S. Devoe, 

 the inspector in charge of this work, exhibits its character: 



Pine Ridge Agency, 



South Dakota, June 4, 1901, 



There are five districts on this reservation— Wakpamini, White Clay, Porcupine, 



Wounded Knee, and Medicine Root. The animals are rounded up in each district 



and diivtn to the final round-up at Pass Creek district, 47 miles from th6 agency, 



and then animals which have estrayed from one district to the other during the 



