REPORT. 



To the State Board of Agriculture. 



The sixteenth semiannual report of the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau, as required bv section 3 of chapter IIG of the Acts 

 of 1902, is herewith respectfully submitted to your honorable 

 Board. 



This report gives in detail an account of the work of the 

 Cattle Bureau for the fiscal year from Dec. 1, 1908, to Dec. 1, 

 1909. In some resj^ects conditions^show an improvement over 

 the previous year. There has been a falling off in the number 

 of cases of glanders and farcy ; fewer outbreaks of contagious 

 diseases among swine have been reported than usual ; and 

 rabies, which has prevailed so extensively for the past five 

 years, shows a very marked diminution. 



During the year the Cattle Bureau has been represented at 

 two meetings of importance: one was the second annual 

 meeting of the Eastern Live Stock Sanitary Association, held 

 at Springfield, Mass., May 21; and the other, the Interna- 

 tional Veterinary Congress at the Hague the week of Septem- 

 ber 13. 



The second annual meeting of the Eastern Live Stock Sani- 

 tary Association was attended by representatives of the cattle 

 commissions of Maine and New Hampshire, the Massachu- 

 setts Cattle Bureau, the Connecticut Cattle Commissioner, the 

 iSTew York State Department of Agriculture, the ISTew Jersey 

 Tuberculosis Commission, the Pennsylvania Live Stock Sani- 

 tary Board, and a representative of the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry, L^nited States Department of Agriculture. The repre- 

 sentatives of the Massachusetts Cattle Bureau were the Chief, 

 Mr. C. A. Dennen and Dr. Benjamin D. Pierce, agents. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 president. Dr. Austin Peters of Massachusetts; vice-presi- 

 dent, Hon. Raymond A. Pearson of New York; executive 



