No. 4.] REPORT OF CATILE BUREAU. 343 



Fi)\'<t. — There should be one law for the whole State. 

 At least, the Chief of the Cattle Bureau should have the same 

 authorit}^ in Boston that he has elsewiiere ; this would not 

 necessitate tiiking the i)()wer away from the veterinarian of 

 the Boston board of health, to kill all horses reported to 

 him in Boston that have glanders or farcy, but would give the 

 Cattle Bureau equal power to deal with cases reported to it. 

 It would also enable the Chief of the Cattle Bureau to keep 

 u}) a proper inspection of cheap auction rooms and low sales 

 stables if it was found necessary to do so, and would give 

 him authority to look after the cleanliness of public water 

 troughs if need be, and to order them closed in case it was 

 advisable ; also to organize a system of mallein testing in 

 infected stables in Boston as well as elsewhere. 



/Second. — The State should thoroughly disinfect all stables 

 where cases of glanders or farcy are found, unless properly 

 done by the local board of health. 



Third. — When a horse with glanders or farcy is killed, it 

 should be ascertained where he was usually shod ; and an 

 agent of the State should go there and disinfect the place 

 where the horses are tied, as soon after completing the disin- 

 fection of the stable as possible. If another horse shod at the 

 same shop is later killed for glanders, the shop should be 

 immediately disinfected again. 



Fourth. — Greater attention should be paid to the cleanli- 

 ness of public watering troughs. They should have larger 

 supply and larger overflow pipes. If they were abolished, 

 and public watering places established with faucets, and each 

 teamster made to carry a pail for his horses, it would be 

 better. Going without water, except what they receive at 

 the home stable, is no hardship for the majority of horses 

 except in the excessively hot and dusty weather of the sum- 

 mer months, when it is necessary to water horses on the road 

 when taking long trips or making long hours at work with- 

 out going home. 



If more money were expended in the ways suggested, 

 much good might be accomplished. It has been customary 

 until recently to order the horse killed, and tell the owner 

 he must disinfect. During the last two years a little disin- 



