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the loss among susceptible stock has been greatly reduced. 

 All farmers importing cattle from England or other countries 

 or districts where Texas fever is unknown should have their 

 cattle immunised before sending them to the Protectorate. 



The Chief Veterinary Officer of the Board of Agriculture, 

 Mr. Stewart Stockman, is pleased at all times to give every 

 assistance in this matter. There is no tuberculosis among 

 East African cattle. 



The principal diseases of sheep are sheep pox and scabies. 

 Sheep pox, which is so fatal a disease in most countries, has 

 become within recent years a benign disease in East Africa, 

 due to the fact that the virus of the disease has become 

 attenuated by its passage through successive generations 

 of native sheep. 



Vaccine is prepared at the Veterinary Laboratory for the 

 vaccination of sheep. 



Scabies is prevalent among the native flocks, and although 

 the parasite of this disease does not do much damage to the 

 hairy native sheep, its ravages among wool sheep are too well 

 known to require repetition here. The dipping of trade sheep 

 passing up and down the country at the Government dipping 

 stations, the erection of private dipping plant on many of the 

 sheep farms, and the removal of the native flocks to reserves, 

 will materially assist the authorities in their endeavours to 

 suppress the disease. Scabies is a great menace to the wool 

 industry of any country, and the hearty co-operation of all 

 sheep farmers in East Africa is necessary to enable everyone 

 to keep their own and their neighbours' flocks clean. 



Foot rot is found in some parts of the Protectorate, and 

 Wostril Fly and Wire Worm require the careful attention of 

 the flock master. 



Horse sickness and contagious lymphangitis are the most 

 important diseases of horses. Occasional cases of horse sick- 

 ness occur annually, but no very bad season of this disease 

 has been experienced since 1904. 



The better built stable, with its mosquito-proof windows 

 and doors, careful stable management, and an increased in- 

 telligence on the part of the native syce, have done much to 



