(4)
The buildings at Tank to which the Veterinary Hospital was taken at
first being in an out-of-way and dangerous locality, the hospital was taken to
the rest-house. The Veterinary Hospital and stallion stables at Tochi were
closed in the beginning of the year owing to the depredations of the lawless
Frontier tribes. The following additions to the different Veterinary Hospitals
are urgently required:—
Bannu...
Serai
Nauraug...
Dera Imail Khan...
Tank...
Chaudwan...
Peshawar...
Charsadda...
Mardan...
Sawabi...
Abbottabad...
Haripur...
Mansehra...
Kohat...
Teri...
Hangu...
Parachinar...
Nowshena...
In-door stables.
Sweepers' quarters.
Manger for in-door patients out in the compound.
New Hospital.
Compounder's quarters, contagious ward, and stallion
stables.
Dog kennels, gate to contagious ward, Hospital compound
walls, and Veterinary Assistant's quarter's walls to be
made higher than at present.
Dog kennel, contagious ward compound, and in-door stables.
Cattle shed, sweepers' quarters, and contagious ward com-
pound.
Compounder's quarters, in-door stables, manger and con-
tagious ward compound.
Zamindar quarters.
Contagious ward.
Contagious ward.
Zamindar quarters and dog ward.
Compounder's quarters and operation shed.
In-door stables and contagious ward.
In-door stables, stallion stables, zamindar quarters, and
syces' quarters.
Veterinary Hospital has been re-opened from 12th April
1919. Contagious ward is very badly required there.
SECTION I.—BOVINES.
Stud bulls.—Table VIII.
25. At the close of the year there were 38 bulls at work in the Pro-
vince compared with 39 last year and
23 in the previous year. There were no
additions and only one casualty. Out of the ten (10) bulls sanctioned for the
Peshawar District, 6 have been purchased recently, and out of the 5 indented
by the Dera Ismail Khan District, 4 have been supplied so far. Every effort is
being made to get the remaining number of bulls as early as possible.
Cattle-breeding in the Province continues to make satisfactory progress.
The bulls are placed in charge of suitable darindahs, the majority of whom have
looked after their bulls very well notwithstanding the fodder famine which was
more or less prevalent everywhere in the Province. As far as possible the
villages where these bulls are located were visited by the Superintendent, and
their produce inspected in addition to the periodical inspections carried out by
the Veterinary Inspectors and Veterinary Assistants. The results of these bulls
are so far very satisfactory, the superiority of their young stock over the ordin-
ary village type being very marked, a point which is readily appreciated by the
zamindars. Special classes for the produce of these bulls have been started at
all the district shows throughout the Province.
A large concentration of District Board bulls is required before any appre-
ciable progress can be made, for which the District Boards are being asked to
make provision. During the year under report great difficulty has been
experienced to get good bulls even in the Dhanni breeding tract, viz., Chakwal
and Tallagang tahsils in Jhelum and Attack districts. The prices of Dhanni
bulls having gone fearfully high, some owners fetched up to Rs. 1,000 for a
bull. Though Kohat District Board indented for two bulls, but after knowing
the prices of these bulls they refused to buy them owing to the prevalence of
high prices.