No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 241 



test. Only one error of diagnosis has been made. A mare 

 in Cambridge, kept at a stable where all the horses Avere 

 tested with mallein the preceding year, commenced to lose 

 flesh and run down. As she had been tested several times 

 the year l^efore and given more or less of a reaction on a 

 number of occasions, she was killed ; liut an autopsy showed 

 no active lesions of glanders, only an old calcareous nodule in 

 one lung and a similar one in a lymphatic gland near the 

 liver, her condition being due to a diseased molar. The 

 Commonwealth reimbursed the owner for the loss of this 

 animal, the value l)eing set at $90. 



A horse was killed in New Bedford in September, which 

 had farcy ; the owner was not satisfied that this was the 

 ftict, and petitioned the Superior Court of Bristol County to 

 assess damages ; but when the case was called for trial early 

 in December the owner and his witnesses did not appear, 

 although the Chief of the Cattle Bureau was present with 

 witnesses and counsel from the Attorney-Generars office to 

 defend the action. It is unlikely that this case will ever 

 come to trial. 



During 1906 there has been more trouble due to persons 

 breaking quarantine than in any previous year for many 

 years ; and this, with the prosecution of persons for dispos- 

 ing of glandered horses, has led to the necessity for a greater 

 number of cases in court than usual. Two persons have dis- 

 posed of horses quarantined on suspicion of having glanders, 

 and two have disposed of cows quarantined on suspicion of 

 having tuberculosis. While it is not unusual for persons to 

 sell animals suffering from a contagious disease 1)efore the 

 quarantine is inq)osed, in most instances it being impossible 

 to prove that the owner had knowledge of or reasonal)le 

 cause to suspect the presence of a contagious disease, yet it 

 is very rare for any one to defy the law, and dispose of an 

 animal duly quarantined by an inspector of animals. 



The cases referred to occurred in South Hadley and Nor- 

 folk. The horse in South Hadley has not been traced, and 

 it is not known whether it had glanders or not. It is not 

 unlikely that it was removed from the State. The owner 

 was fined $25 at the district court in Northami)ton , — a sum 



