No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 337 



5 persons made voluntary requests to have their herds tested: — 

 5 herds were tested, comprising . . . . .57 cattle. 

 Released, ........ 48 



Killed and paid for, 9 



— 57 cattle. 



Miscellaneous Diseases. 



The Cattle Bureau is called upon during the year to deal 

 with other diseases of a contagious nature, in addition to 

 rabies, glanders and bovine tuberculosis, and these diseases 

 are usually classified under the title of " miscellaneous 

 diseases." Among them are actinomycosis, mange, hog 

 cholera and allied troubles, symptomatic anthrax or blackleg, 

 anthrax, Texas fever, and tuberculosis in other animals than 

 cattle. 



Hog cholera has occurred in 60 herds of swine, comprising 

 3,584 head, of which number 2,297 are reported as having 

 died. 



Five cases of actinomycosis have been reported, and in 

 each case the animal has been slaughtered. 



In pastures where symptomatic anthrax or blackleg oc- 

 curred the previous season the protective inoculation has been 

 given to the young animals when the owners requested it. 

 The material used for this preventive inoculation, as in the 

 past season, has been furnished by the United States Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, and sent to Dr. James B. Paige of the 

 Amherst Agricultural College, who has prepared it for use 

 in the treatment when required. Two hundred and sixty-two 

 head of young stock have been vaccinated by Dr. Paige and 

 his brother. Dr. Flenry E. Paige, and in nearly every instance 

 a report from the owner at the end of ten days following the 

 vaccination has been received, showing the efficiency of this 

 method of prevention of the disease and the safety of the 

 application of the treatment, for without exception the disease 

 has been arrested almost immediately, and not a single case 

 of death due to vaccination has been reported. The vaccine 

 has been used in 50 herds, located ih 20 different towns in 

 various parts of the State, extending from x\ndover in Essex 

 County to Rowe in Franklin County. 



Under the provision of law classifying mange as a con- 

 tagious disease the department has conducted quite extensive 



