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ities are constantly coming in. About half of our communications 
are in regard to this disease. Our reports show that 1,739 sus¬ 
pected cases of the disease exist in the 67 counties making report. 
It is safe to say that from one-third to one-half of these cases 
will prove to be something else than glanders. I think then that 
of these suspected cases there are at least 869 of them glanders. 
That this number represents all the cases of this disease in the 
State is quite doubtful, since we generally tind in a county, on 
making an inspection, that there are as many cases unreported as 
reported. Being distributed over so wide an extent of territory, 
the danger of infection to other animals is not only increased, but 
the labor of exterminating it is made maay times greater. 
Texas Fever. —One hundred and forty-eight communications 
have been received on this subject. Thirty-seven counties re¬ 
ported this disease during the summer and autumn just past. 
The estimated number of deaths, according to these reports, is 
3,983. 
Hog Cholera. —Forty-nine communications have been re¬ 
ceived relative to the diseases of swine, 47 of which were upon 
the subject of hog cholera. These 47 correspondents reported 
the death of 9,584 animals from this disease. The principal 
losses have been confined to a few counties, and the mortality 
from this cause is probably greatly in excess of the figures above 
stated. 
Black Leg. —From forty-six counties 1,904 cases of black leg 
have been reported. I am of the opinion that these figures 
represent but a small proportion of the actual losses in the State. 
Of the seventy-six communications received .in relation to this 
disease, but few have requested an investigation—the great 
majority asking for information as to the proper preventive 
measures to be adopted. 
Tuberculosis (Lung Consumption of Cattle.) — 1 have been 
called to see but two cases of this disease during the year. One 
case was in its last stages, and could readily be made out. 
Hydrophobia. —Twenty-eight reports on hydrophobia have 
been received. I have some doubts as to the correctness of the 
diagnosis in some of these cases. On the 13th of June I saw a 
