REPORT. 



To the State Board of Agriculture. 



The eighth semiannual report of the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau, as required by section 3 of cha})ter 116 of the Acts 

 of 1902, is herewith respectfully submitted to your honor- 

 able Board. 



As the law requires that a report shall be made semi- 

 annually by the Chief of the Cattle Bureau to the State 

 Board of Agriculture, it has been customary to submit a 

 brief statement, at the summer meeting of the Board, of the 

 prevalence of contagious animal diseases during the first 

 half of the year, and means taken for their suppression ; but 

 that report is condensed as much as possible, and is intended 

 to be preliminary to the report made at this meeting, in 

 which a complete and detailed account is given of the work 

 done during the preceding year. 



The year of the Cattle Bureau commences December 16 

 of one year and closes December 15 of the following one, in 

 order to allow sufficient time for closing the books and pre- 

 paring the report in season to have it ready for your con- 

 sideration at this meeting. Exceptions to the rule have 

 been made this year by liringing the history of the outbreak 

 of rabies up to Jan. 1, 1906, and also in the portion relat- 

 ing to glanders, where two or three cases entered on the 

 books prior to December 16 were not disposed of until 

 several days later, but as every case reported up to that 

 date has now^ been settled, it seems better to include the 

 final disposition of the animals in the year's report. 



A financial statement is given below : — 



