No. 4.] RErOKT OF (\VTTLK BUKKAU. 329 



It is hoped that this account shows that, while the greater 

 part of the expense and much of the work IcU upon the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry, yet there is much 

 that can be done by the State in co-operating with it, and 

 supplementing the work of the national authorities, besides 

 assisting in limiting the spread of the disease by (juarantine 

 methods, closing markets, forbidding auctions, and prohib- 

 iting moving certain animals and infected products in certain 



towns and districts. 



Glanders. 



More horses have been killed on account of glanders or 

 farcv or have died therefrom durinij the year endino- Dec. 15, 

 1903, than recorded in any previous year in Massachusetts. 

 If there has been an}^ such mortality heretofore, it was before 

 a systematic attempt was made to have every case reported. 

 At present it is thought that very few cases occur that are 

 not brought to the notice of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 

 If progress in combating this disease is not made to the ex- 

 tent that is desired, at least, under the system of obtaining 

 reports from various sources that has been followed during 

 the past three or four years, the gravity of the situation has 

 been shown. 



The total number of animals upon the books of the Cattle 

 Bureau for the past 3^ear is 1,160 horses and mules : of the 

 latter there are only 2 or 3. Of these animals, 8(50 have 

 been killed (except a few which died), either by order of the 

 Chief of the Cattle Bureau or that of the veterinarian of the 

 Boston board of health, or with the owner's consent when 

 informed by veterinarians of the nature of the malady. In 

 addition, 169 cases were reported as suspicious, and later re- 

 leased as free from disease, after examination by an agent 

 of the Cattle Bureau ; and 131 horses have been tested with 

 mallein in stables where glanders existed. All but 5 of the 

 latter have been discharged as negative cases ; the 5 remain- 

 ing have reacted to mallein, and will have to be tested one or 

 more times again, when, if they cease to react, they will be 

 discharged, or if they develop physical signs of the disease 

 they will be killed. 



Most of the animals considered suspicious were quarantined 



