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Magistrates, chairmen, district boards, and other general public inter-
ested in the welfare of the department. He attended the Dewa fair,
district Bara Banki, where he acted as a member of the judging com-
mittee and personally delivered lectures on cattle disease, management,
feed and keep of animals generally. He inspected the stallion stands at
Azamgarh and Gonda. He supervised the operation made on a case of
rinderpest for the supply of virulent blood to the Muktesar Laboratory.
He attended district board meeting at Benares and addressed the mem-
bers present in connexion with a resolution on the subject of the proposed
transfer of the sadr veterinary hospital from the district to the municipal
board. He attended the outbreaks of surra in the districts of Gonda and
Basti.
9. Mr. T. S. Davies was on tour for 146 days and travelled 5,696
miles by rail and 886 miles by road. He visited thirteen districts in
connexion with the inspection of veterinary hospitals, dispensaries and
stallion stands. He attended seats of outbreaks of surra in the districts
of Cawnpore, Etawah, Mainpuri and Saharanpur. He personally attended
places of outbreaks of contagious cattle diseases where they were in viru-
lent form. He attended the horse and cattle show organized by the
Moradabad Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition held in January last
and acted as a judge and secretary. He proceeded on eight months'
leave out of India from March 27, 1926, and has been succeeded by
Mr. Ghulam Qadir, veterinary inspector.
10. Saiyid Mohammed Raza Husain, Deputy Superintendent, Jhansi,
whose services have been transferred to the Agricultural department in
the cattle-breeding operations from November 1, 1925, was on tour for
113 days and travelled 3,172 miles by rail and 463 miles by road. His
tour ranged in 68 villages and inspected all the dispensaries and the work
of veterinary inspectors, touring veterinary assistant surgeons and stallion
stands of his sub-division—most of them were inspected more than twice.
He personally supervised outbreaks of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth
disease in the district of Jhansi where he took every precaution for their
suppression and conducted inoculations. He also remained in Cawnpore
district for a considerable time and dealt with surra where the outbreak
was in an epidemic form.
11. During the year under report Pandit Tekchand, late Deputy
Superintendent, Basti sub-division, remained in charge from the beginning
of the year up to February 6, 1926, on which date he died. He inspected
all of his fifteen veterinary hospitals and dispensaries in his charge-
most of which were visited twice. He checked the work of his veter-
inary assistant surgeons and personally attended the seats of cattle
disease and conducted inoculations. He attended a few meetings of the
Basti district board, where the question of reduction in the number of
veterinary assistant surgeons was discussed. He attended the Dadri fair
in the district of Ballia and acted there as a member of the judging
committee. He attended the outbreaks of surra and glanders in the dis-
tricts of Basti and Bahraich and visited twice the equine stock of Birdpur
Estate to deal with the outbreak of glanders. He inspected stallion
stands at Gonda and Azamgarh.
12. Consequent upon my proceeding on leave and in the arrange-
ment made in connexion thereof Mohammed Shah acted as Deputy
Superintendent of the Moradabad sub-division from the beginning of the