162 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The average j)i"it'e paid for coiideiiiiied cattle for the year 

 was $22.18. 



There has been received during the year, from the sale of 

 hides and carcasses of condemned animals, sale of ear tags, 

 testing cattle for non-resident owners, etc., $4,783.76. 



Claims for 772 head of cattle condemned and killed as 

 tuberculous during the year remain unsettled, to be paid for 

 on proof of claims, the appraised value of which amounts to 

 $16, 534. The first of December, bills for salaries and ex- 

 penses of agents and other miscellaneous expenses were re- 

 ceived, amounting to $5,673.86. This makes an indebtedness 

 of $22,207.86 to be met with the balance of $173.47. 



The amount due at the close of the fiscal year ending Nov. 

 30, 1908, in excess of the appropriation for that year, was 

 $11,538.66, this amount being chiefly for cattle killed. The 

 Legislature of 1909 did not make any deficiency appropria- 

 tion for the use of the Cattle Bureau, but worded the 

 appropriation bill so that $70,000 was appropriated for the 

 extermination of contagious diseases among horses, cattle and 

 other animals for " this and previous years." Deducting, 

 therefore, the $11,538.66 which had to be used to pay for 

 cattle claims of 1908 and a few of the previous years, left 

 only $58,461.34 to meet the expenses to be incurred during 

 the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1909. As the expenses in- 

 curred during 1909 in the work of the Cattle Bureau were 

 nearly as much as for the year previous, there was an in- 

 debtedness at the close of the fiscal year of $22,034.39, which 

 will have to be paid from the appropriation for 1910, unless 

 the Legislature makes a deficiency appropriation. 



As the annual expenses of the Cattle Bureau in the general 

 work incidental to exterminating contagious diseases among 

 horses, cattle and other animals exceeds $70,000, an estimate 

 sent to the Auditor, under the requirements of section 211 of 

 the Acts of 1905, for the year ending Nov. 30, 1910, gives 

 $100,000 as the amount required for the genei-al work of the 

 F)urean, and $7,000 for the salary of the (liief iiii<l his clerk, 

 general clerical assistance, printing, postage and incidental 

 expenses of the office. 



