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Training in inoculation.
35. During the year under report 2 Veterinary Assistants were sent to
Bareilly, United Provinces, for training in
inoculation work.
Work of subordinate establishment.
36. On the whole the work of the subordinates is considered satis-
factory and they gave very little trouble.
Only one Veterinary Assistant was dis-
missed during the year. The Department was one man short at the close of the
year hut it has since reached its full strength and with the scholarship men
studying at the Punjab Veterinary College there should be no difficulty in
getting candidates in future. Of the two Veterinary Inspectors in the Province,
Veterinary Inspector Dost Mohammed Khan in charge of the Peshawar Division
worked very well, he has a good knowledge of his districts, the inhabitants
and the men under his charge.
Training of local men in the Punjab Veterinary
College
37. Out of the five men deputed from the various District Boards of
North-West Frontier Province only two
have passed the final examination and the
remaining three having passed the examination of the second year class are
promoted to the final class.
PART V.—EXPENDITURE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
38. The expenditure of the Department is given in Table XIV-A. It
shows Rs. 39,682 against Rs. 53,754 for the previous year. The decrease
appears chiefly due to the abandonment of horse and cattle shows during the
year.
General remarks.
39. The low figures of animals attacked with contagious disease and the
mortality therefrom is most satisfactory, but it is in all probability due to a very
dry and healthy season. There were only 3 cases of opposition to inoculations
in actual outbreaks but vaccinations which are performed on healthy animals
in the absence of any outbreak of disease such as black-quarter and hæmorrha-
gic septicæmia do not appeal to the people.
40. Cattle breeding in the Province is very backward. Bulls have been
from time to time supplied to all the districts but with little success. The
holdings generally are small and the Zamindars prefer to buy their bullocks for
the ploughing season and then sell when it is over. They only keep a few
cows and a buffalo for milk and a pair or two bullocks for the well. A large
trade is done by travelling dealers who bring herds for sale via Dera Ghazi
Khan and Grand Trunk roads and by this means disease is frequently brought
into the Province. More might be done in Hazara to supply a sufficient number
of bulls as the people in this district show a fair amount of interest in local
breeding.
41. The merino rams appear to be popular in Kaghan and the question
of importing merino ewes which are fairly cheap might be considered, by this
means it would save the heavy expenditure of periodically purchasing rams
from New Zealand and the lambs born should be in a better position to stand
the change of climate and fodder. At the time of writing this report the
Superintendent is about to make an extended tour in the Kaghan valley and a
separate report on the same will be submitted.
42. Horse and mule breeding throughout the Province is very popular
especially in Bannu. Peshawar and the Kurram Agency. The standard scale of
stallions in Bannu is insufficient and the District Board has requested that it
should be increased. The demand for the stallions in this district is so great
that for the last few years each stallion has completed his full number of
coverings before the end of May. Peshawar will too probably ask to have
their number increased. An extra donkey stallion has been sanctioned for the
Kurram Agency but he has not been supplied yet. The Mehtar of Chitral
asked through the Political Agent of Malakand for two donkeys at his own
expense but these could not be supplied.