REPORT. 



Boston, Jan. 10, 1911. 

 To the State Board of Agriculture. 



In submitting to your honorable Board, as required by 

 statutory provisions (section 3, chapter 116, Acts of 1902), 

 this, the eighteenth semiannual report of the Chief of the 

 Cattle Bureau, it seems fitting to state, by way of preface, 

 that, as I have been in charge of the office only since Oct. 5, 

 1910, the report which is for the year ending Nov. 30, 1910, 

 must necessarily, so far as its tabulations of work performed 

 are concerned, represent, in a large degree, the administra- 

 tion of my predecessor. Of course it includes also the work 

 performed since the date of my commission, a period of barely 

 two months. 



In preparing such details as the report contains I have had 

 to rely upon the office force, and I wish to place on record 

 my appreciation of the unvarying courtesy and willing co- 

 operation rendered by it. These assistants are very efficient, 

 and display, because of their long service and marked intelli- 

 gence, a most enviable knowledge of and intimacy with the 

 detailed clerical work of the Bureau. Under their careful 

 routine even the minutest detail is correctly checked up, and 

 there is at all times, and open to public inspection, a complete 

 statistical record on all matters coming within the jurisdiction 

 of the Bureau. 



I commend to your consideration the tables herewith sub- 

 mitted. 



Rabies. 



The following table shows the prevalence of rabies during 

 the year ending Nov. 30, 1910 : — 



