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THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
Iii reviewing the work of the pathological division Dr. 
Salmon emphasizes the report of Dr. V. A. Norgaarcl, its chief, 
who estimates that the annual loss of cattle from blackleg in 
the districts principally affected has ranged in years when the 
disease was most prevalent from 5 to 35 per cent. The estimated 
loss after inoculation with the bureau vaccine was 0.54 per 
cent inoculated, or a little more than one-half of 1 per cent. 
This loss could have been further reduced had the operators 
been familiar with the work of vaccination, and reports show 
that a number of losses were caused by failure to follow instruc¬ 
tions carefully. 
While marked success has attended the treatment of hog 
cholera and swine plague with antitoxic serum, and experiments 
are being further conducted along that line, the bureau has not 
abandoned its efforts to find a method by which the two impor¬ 
tant diseases can be treated successfully without the intervention 
of a serum animal. 
Dr. Salmon recommends as improvements in the bureau’s 
work during the next year an increase in the meat inspection 
force ; that measures be rigidly enforced for the exclusion of 
sheep affected with scab ; that the distribution of blackleg vac¬ 
cine be continued to determine its efficacy ; that a special effort 
be made to instruct representatives of the State experiment sta¬ 
tions in the manufacture and use of the anti toxin for hog cholera 
and swine plague ; that the Texas fever regulations be amended 
so as to prevent the movement of tick-infested cattle to the non- 
infected regions immediately above the quarantine line at any 
time of the year ; that the experiments in dipping cattle with 
a view, of destroying the ticks be continued ; that pure-bred 
cattle imported into the United States for dairy or breeding 
purposes be tested with tuberculin, and that those which react 
upon this test be rejected; the disinfection of hides to guard 
against the importation of the various forms of contagion which 
affect cattle, and particularly that of anthrax ; that the provi¬ 
sion for developing and extending foreign markets for dairy 
products be continued ; and that the recommendations already 
made for necessary legislation to extend the existing system of 
government inspection and certification of meats and meat prod¬ 
ucts for export so as to include butter, cheese and condensed 
milk and cream for export be pressed , upon the attention of 
Congress.—(. Breeder's Gazette .) 
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