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the loss among susceptible stock has been greatly reduced. 
All farmers importing cattle from England or other countries 
or districts where Texas fever is unknown should have their 
cattle immunised before sending them to the Protectorate. 
The Chief Veterinary Officer of the Board of Agriculture, 
Mr. Stewart Stockman, is pleased at all times to give every 
assistance in this matter. There is no tuberculosis among 
East African cattle. 
The principal diseases of sheep are sheep pox and scabies. 
Sheep pox, which is so fatal a disease in most countries, has 
become within recent years a benign disease in East Africa, 
due to the fact that the virus of the disease has become 
attenuated by its passage through successive generations 
of native sheep. 
Vaccine is prepared at the Veterinary Laboratory for the 
vaccination of sheep. 
Scabies is prevalent among the native flocks, and although 
the parasite of this disease does not do much damage to the 
hairy native sheep, its ravages among wool sheep are too well 
known to require repetition here. The dipping of trade sheep 
passing up and down the country at the Government dipping 
stations, the erection of private dipping plant on many of the 
sheep farms, and the removal of the native flocks to reserves, 
will materially assist the authorities in their endeavours to 
suppress the disease. Scabies is a great menace to the wool 
industry of any country, and the hearty co-operation of all 
sheep farmers in East Africa is necessary to enable everyone 
to keep their own and their neighbours’ flocks clean. 
Foot rot is found in some parts of the Protectorate, and 
Wostril Fly and Wire Worm require the careful attention of 
the flock master. 
Horse sickness and contagious lymphangitis are the most 
important diseases of horses. Occasional cases of horse sick¬ 
ness occur annually, but no very bad season of this disease 
has been experienced since 1904. 
The better built stable, with its mosquito-proof windows 
and doors, careful stable management, and an increased in¬ 
telligence on the part of the native syce, have done much to 
