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of ofHcials in control of live stock sanitation. It is also 

 necessary to have the complete co-operation of the rail- 

 roads, as infected railway cars frequently transmit con- 

 tagious and infectious diseases. 



A tabulated report of the shipments of live stock 

 into and out of Kentucky, for which we have received 

 health certificates, follows : 



ANIMALS SHIPPED INTO KENTUCKY. 



CATTLE 



Dairy 



and 



Breeding 



2,047 



Stockers 



and 

 Feeders 



16,333 



Slaugh- 

 ter 



9,332 



Horses 



Mules 



Jacks 



SHEEP 



Regis- 

 tered 



Stock 



15,334 



HOGS 



Regis- 

 tered 



Slaugli- 

 ter 



ATJIMALS SHIPPED FROM KENTUCKY. 



It is a deplorable fact that the Kentucky dairies havi! 

 to go out of the State to buy their cows, as the above 

 table shows that 363 more cattle for dairy and brjotling 

 purposes were shipped into Kentucky than were shipped 

 out, and I am exceedingly sorry to note that we cannot 

 supply our own feeders, as 16,333 animals were shipped 

 into the State for that purpose, and only 3,972 were ship- 

 ped from the State. Our records of cattle for slaughter 

 are not complete because of the fact that great numbers 

 of animals were taken from the Bourbon Stock Yards, 

 the only yards in Kentucky having Federal inspection, 

 direct to the packing and slaughtering houses in Jeffer- 

 son County, Kentucky, for which we have no certificates. 

 Nine thousand three hundred and thirty-two (9,332) 

 cattle were brought into Kentucky for slaughter from 

 other States, while during our quarantine 9,244 were 

 taken from the State. Most of this number were fat cat- 

 tle, that were shipped out during the winter of 1914-15, 

 when certificates were required for all cattle for any pur- 

 pose. A great many horses shipped into the State were 



