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reduce the number of outbreaks. Horse owners should take 

 the greatest care to smear their animals over with a little 

 kerosene oil when using their animals after sunset. Theiler 

 has met with great success in his immunisation of mules from 

 this disease, and it is sincerely hoped that his endeavours to 

 immunise horses will be crowned with success. 



The Veterinary Department have been most active in their 

 endeavours to suppress contagious lymphangitis, and have 

 established a quarantine station for the reception of infected 

 animals. The disease runs a slow course and does not yield 

 readily to treatment. There is no glanders in East Africa. 



A great menace to the pig industry of the country is a 

 peculiar virulent form of swine fever. For some time past 

 this disease has been under investigation and every endeavour 

 is now being made to produce a serum with which to protect 

 swine. Pigs do exceedingly well in East Africa, and probably 

 there is no place in the world in which they can be reared so 

 cheaply, for there is not only a good natural feed for them 

 throughout the year, but grain is cheap and easily obtained. 



Ostrich farming is advancing rapidly, but, as in South 

 Africa, the greatest care must be taken of young birds, for in 

 some districts of the Protectorate the Strongylus douglassi 

 has been the cause of considerable mortality. 



The death rate among imported dogs from tick fever ran 

 to close on eighty-four per cent. With the discovery of the 

 trypanblue treatment, by Nuttall, of Cambridge, this death 

 rate has been reduced to about twenty per cent. Tubes of 

 sterilised trypanblue can be obtained from the veterinary 

 authorities, and all classes of dogs can now be imported 

 without the grave risk which dog owners had to run before 

 the introduction of this treatment. No case of rabies has 

 been recorded in the Protectorate. 



From time to time the veterinarians publish articles on the 

 various diseases of stock either in the Agricultural Journal or 

 in leaflet form, and it is proposed to arrange a course of 

 lectures for farmers. 



