No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 311 



Cattle Bureau Order No. 27. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 

 Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, July 19, 1910. 



To Persons bringing Cattle into Massachusetts, and All Others whom 

 it may concern : — 

 Section 5 of Cattle Bureau Order No. 15, as amended by Cattle 

 Bureau Orders Nos. IG and 2G, is hereby further amended by adding 

 the following sentences: — 



Cattle being returned to Massachusetts from without the State 

 will not be looked upon as returning from out-of-State pastures 

 unless they are returned to the farm of the person who originally 

 sent them out of the State. Cattle sold to go out of the State and 

 resold to return to other farms than those from Avhieh they were 

 originally shipped, or cattle returning from without the State to 

 premises other than those from Avliieh they were originally shipjied, 

 will not be looked upon as pasture cattle but will return subject 

 to passing the tuberculin test. 



This order shall be published by sending a copy to each inspector 

 of animals in the Commonwealth, and by furnishing a copy to each 

 shipper of cattle into the Commonwealth ujion permits issued under 

 the provisions of section 1 of Cattle Bureau Order No. 15. 

 This order shall take effect upon its approval. 



Austin Peters, 

 Chief of Cattle Bureau. 

 Approved in Council, July 20, 15)10. 

 E. F. Hamlin, 



Executive Secretary. 



MiscELi.ANEOUs Diseases. 



The Cattle Bureau is called upon during the year to deal 

 with other diseases of a contagious nature, in addition to 

 rabies, glanders and bovine tuberculosis, and these diseases 

 are usuallv classified under the title of " miscellaneous 

 diseases." Among them are actinomycosis, hog cholera and 

 allied troubles, symptomatic anthrax or blackleg, anthrax, 

 Texas fever, and tuberculosis in other animals than cattle. 



There have been very few cases of hog cholera, only 10 

 herds of swine having been quarantined for this disease. 

 All but 2 of these herds have been released, as the disease has 

 subsided and the premises have been disinfected. The re- 

 maining 2 herds are still under observation by this Bureau. 



A suspected case of tuberculosis in a bay mare in Brockton 



