No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 



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ington each month. The report is made to show weekly 

 receipts. The following table shows the totals, by months, 

 for the past year : — 



Receipts of Live Stock at Boston for Twelve Months ending Nov. 30, 



1910. 



The third division of the work consists in testing herds 

 with tuberculin for owners who desire it, and is known as 

 volmitary request worh. The following figures show what 

 has been done under this division : — 



20 jiersons, in 12 different cities and towns, made voluntary re- 

 quests to have their herds tested : — 

 20 herds were tested, comi^rising ..... 314 cattle. 



Released, 219 



Killed on permit to kill, paid for, ... 75 

 Killed on permit to kill, no award, ... 20 



314 cattle. 



In 2 of the animals killed no lesions were found on post- 

 mortem examination. 



After consultation with the authorities in charge of live- 

 stock interests in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 

 the following order was issued on June 1 : — 



