Frank J. Cane, Cortland, Ohio. Stock from The Pan-American Nurseries. Rochester, N. Y. M. B. Mershon, 256 S. Balch Street, Akron, Ohio. Michael L. McCabe, Greenfield, Ind. Stock from J. K. Henby & Son. Greenfield, Ind. Joseph McCurdy, Mt. Blanchard, Ohio. Stock from J. E. Ilgenfritz & Sons, Monroe, Mich. Geo. Magrie, 602 Elm Street. Cincinnati, Ohio. Mathias Otto, 215 Santee Avenue, Findlay, Ohio. Frederick Perry, Findlay, Ohio. Stock from The Fremont Nursery, Fremont, Ohio. Louis D. Poock, Troy, Ohio. Stock from The George Peters Nursery Company, Troy, Ohio. Henry J. Phillips, Jr., Toledo, Ohio. Stock from Ebbings & Van Groos, Boskoop, Holland; Perennial Garden Company, Maumee, Ohio; Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, Ohio; Evergreen Nursery Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. J. J. Ross, Malinta, Ohio. Stock from The Michigan Nursery Com any, Monroe, Mich. W. P. Sharp, 261 W. Frambes Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Edward A. Shattuck, 167 Lane Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. C. W. Schmidt, Springfield, Ohio. Stock from W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio. Joseph Strausbaugh, 374 Sandusky Street, Tiffin, Ohio. F. E. Sears, Sabina, Ohio. Stock from M. L. Carr's Sons, Yellow Springs, Ohio. James Stenner, 133 W. 5th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Stock from Joe. W. Schuette & Company, St. Louis, Mo. Frank L. Traphagen, Massillon, Ohio. Stock from Chase Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y. Isaac Thompson, Graham, Ohio. Stock from I. E. Ilgenfritz's Sons Company, Monroe, Mich. G. O. Wellman, Defiance, Ohio. Stock from Chase Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y. SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE State Board of Live Stock Commissioners OF OHIO. Columbus, Ohio, November 4th, 1907. To His Excellency, Andrew L. Harris, Governor of Ohio: SIR: The State Board of Live Stock Commissioners has the honor to submit herewith its annual report for the year ending November 4th, 1907. The appendix contains the rules and regulations adopted by the Board for the shipment of live stock into the state, and a list of licensed veterinarians practicing veterinary medicine in the state. For over a year the Board has had in its employ a state veterinarian and an assistant, who have devoted their entire time to the performance of official duties. Over two hundred and twenty-five trips and laboratory investigations were made during the year. The diseases that received principal attention were glanders and mange among horses, Southern cattle fever and tuberculosis among cattle, scab among sheep, swine plague and hog cholera among swine and rabies among all animals. A few new or unusual diseases were reported and investigated, the chief among these being black leg or quarter ill and ulcerative ano-vulvitis among calves, and epizootic lymphangitis among horses. The latter disease may, in the future, require considerable attention from the Board. With the funds available it was impossible during the past year to exercise anything approaching a perfect control over the spread of most of these diseases. From the beginning of its organization in 1902, it has been the policy of the Board to take up only such control work as could be well and effectively handled with the means provided. Accordingly the eradication of glanders and sheep scab and the control of Southern cattle shipments with a view to excluding Southern cattle fever, received most of the time and attention of the Board. Owing to the comparatively limited prevalence of these diseases, together with other favoring circumstances, such as the possibility of cooperation with the National Bureau of Animal Industry in regulating the shipment of Southern cattle and Western sheep, they have been kept under satisfactory control. The general advance in the price of all kinds of live stock has been attended with larger shipments of animals for breeding and other purposes, and with this the facilities for introducing and disseminating infectious diseases among animals have been increased. That this is true is evidenced by the growing demand upon the services of the Board for the investigation of all kinds of animal diseases. In order, therefore, to maintain the work of the Board even at its present stage of efficiency larger funds will be required, and any extension of its duties to the much needed control of tuberculosis, the infectious swine diseases and rabies, would require still additional means. Most of the energies of the Board were devoted to the control of glanders, Southern cattle fever and sheep scab. Investigations concerning the remaining diseases were made whenever and wherever they did not conflict with the work relating to those first mentioned. During the year thirty-two dairy herds were tested for tuberculosis as compared with sixteen herds for the preceding year. In two years nine hundred and eleven cattle were tested. Of this number two hundred and eleven, or slightly over twenty-three and one-half per cent., were found tubercular. The fact that tuberculosis of cattle and tuberculosis or consumption of man are one and the same disease, and that they are readily intercommunicable, is no longer doubted by any one at all informed upon these subjects. The report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the relations of human and bovine tuberculosis confirms this statement. Investigations conducted in our National Bureau of Animal Industry point to the same conclusions. The control of tuberculosis in our dairies is therefore no longer a simple economic problem with which the farmer and dairyman alone have to deal, but it directly and seriously affects and concerns the public in general. Although it would be impossible to make an accurate estimate of the number of tubercular cows that supply the citizens of Ohio with milk, the tuberculosis situation in the state may be briefly summed up as follows: Of nine hundred and eleven cows officially tested within the last two years two hundred and eleven, or over twenty-three and one-half per cent., proved to be tubercular. Since this is the percentage of tubercular cattle in "suspected" herds that were examined at the request of owners, these figures do not necessarily represent average conditions existing in the state. At the same time it should be borne in mind that these herds. were of the better classes of cattle found in the state, and that their own |