462 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Amount brought forward. 

 Amount paid for commissioners' salaries, 

 Amount paid for agents' salaries, 

 Amount paid for clerks' and stenographers' sal 



aries, 



Expenses of commissioners, . 

 Expenses of agents, .... 

 Expenses of office, 



5,201 04 



3,781 80 



11,869 28 



3,154 56 



Expenses of laboratory and experimental work, 1,515 17 



Expenses of implements. 

 Expenses of quarantine stations, . 

 Expenses of glanders (killing and bm-ial) , 



$188,530 35 



. $7,283 00 

 . 13,661 54 



1,883 75 



3,870 35 



87 00 



52,207 49 



Total payments, $240,737 84 



During the year the average price per head has been . . $34 12 



For the first six months the average price per head has been 35 22 



For the last six months the average price per head has been 30 45 

 For the last thi'ee months the average price per head has 



been 28 26 



For the last one month the average price per head has been 29 69 



The high average for the first six months and for the year 

 is due in a great measure to the number of private tests that 

 were made during the early months of the year. 



Cash received during the year and turned over to the 

 State Treasurer : — 



For hides and carcasses, 



For sale of laboratory supplies, 



For sale of pasture tags, 



For use of telephone, 



Total, $5,217 29 



In the work of inspecting the cattle in their respective 

 towns the inspectors are supposed to make a physical exam- 

 ination of each animal on the premises. Any that they have 

 reason to suspect as being diseased are placed in quarantine, 

 to be examined later by the Cattle Commission, and either 

 released or condemned, as may be decided. This work has 

 gradually resulted in the advanced generalized cases of 

 tuberculosis being picked out by the inspectors and destroyed, 



