farmers, and that we now so generally have their intelligent and cordial co-operation. We append to this report valuable outlines and papers from several of the veterinarians, who, with ability and earnestness, have aided in the work, and to whom the thanks of the farmers of the State are due. REPORTS OF STATE VETERINARY INSPECTORS. REPORT OF W. B. E. MILLER, D.V.S. CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, January 26th, 1886. To the Secretary State Board of Health of N. J.: SIR-In accordance with your request, I herewith submit a report of the contagious diseases of animals that have come under my observation and inspection from January 1st, 1885, to date. January 24, 1885, visited the farm of Samuel H. Rhoades, of Mount Ephraim, Camden county, and examined his herd of forty-five cattle. Found two sick with contagious pleuro-pneumonia, one of them very bad. Was informed by the attendant that one animal had already died. The herd was quarantined and revisited on January 13th, when another animal was found dead and the other appraised and slaughtered, post-mortem examinations being made of the carcasses of both, which revealed the disease in its worst form. On January 17th, accompanied by Dr. Dyer, revisited the farm and inoculated the healthy animals, thirty-eight in all, and isolated such as were sick or suspicious. From that time forward, for the following three or four months, regular visitations were made to the farm and a general supervision kept over the herd. There being no further evidence of any disease existing, the herd was released from quarantine and other animals were purchased and taken to the farm, which, on account of the great difficulty of procuring the proper kind of virus, were not inoculated at the time, nor have any been inoculated since, although several have since been purchased. From the time of the purchase of the animals not inoculated, until the beginning of the year 1886, the cattle have been in excellent health, so far as the owner is able to discover. On January 20th, 1886, I was again called to the farm and found three sick cows-two of them, lung lesions; the third affected with disease of the urinary apparatus, due to parturition; she was one of the animals that had been inoculated, the two first mentioned were not. One of these cows, in consequence of her serious illness, prematurely gave birth to a calf, which, added to her other afflictions, hastened her death, which occurred on the 23d inst. I made a post-mortem the day following, and found characteristic lesions of contagious pleuro-pneumonia more marked in the pleura than in the lung tissue. The other animal was apparently better than when seen a few days before, she seemingly being affected with a milder form of the disease. The efficacy of inoculation, as a preventive measure, has been clearly demonstrated in this herd, and I shall at once inoculate the balance of the healthy animals. On May 20th, 1885, I discovered an outbreak of contagious pleuro-pneumonia in the herd of Michael Feenfer, of Pavonia, Camden county. The herd was quarantined and the healthy animals inoculated. Of the sick several died, and others were slaughtered as ordered by you. The herd was regularly visited and a careful watch kept over it for several months, when it was released from quarantine and has since had other animals placed therein, all of which have until the present time been in perfect health. I made several visitations to Burlington county in company with Dr. Dyer and examined animals affected with contagious pleuropneumonia on the farms of Levi Jones, near Pemberton, Samuel J. Branning, near Medford, and Shreeve Robbins, of Vincentown, all of which will be duly reported to you by Dr. Dyer, who has had charge of the cases on the several farms in that locality. On January 25th, 1886, I visited the herd of John Dawson, four miles from Salem, Salem county, and examined his herd, and found three animals very sick with pleuro-pneumonia and a fourth suspicious. The sick were isolated from the balance of the herd and every precaution taken to prevent the spread of the disease. The healthy stock will be at once inoculated and the sick slaughtered as the best means of eradicating the disease quickly and effectively. There are other herds in the vicinity that might be exposed, if radical means were not employed to wipe it out at once. There have been several cases of glanders in horses and mules that have come under my examination in the city of Camden, together with a few isolated cases in the country, all of which were promptly destroyed. I was also called to see one case near Avis' Mills, in Gloucester county, the animal-a mule--having the disease in its very |