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8. The aggregate number of stallions owned by District Boards (99) is
the same as that shown last year, but only 3 are shown as "horses" as against
30 last year. This difference is accounted for by the change of classification
alluded to in the Report, whereby the status and nomenclature of all but three of
the stallions formerly classed as horses were altered. The popularity of the pony
stallion among the agricultural classes continues to be maintained. The large
decrease in the general average of mares covered per stallion in the North Punjab,
which was remarked last year, has been succeeded by a slight increase, while in
the South Punjab the number was about the same as in the previous year.
9. The proposal referred to by the Director that 50 donkey stallions
should be purchased from Imperial Revenues for maintenance by District Boards
has been sanctioned by the Government of India, who, however, have not yet
intimated the market in which they wish the animals to be purchased.
10. Of the 13,511 cases of rinderpest reported during the year, 8,121,
or 60 per cent., proved fatal, as against 11,723 deaths last year from that disease.
But the figures available are, no doubt, defective, as is noted in the Report. The
results of inoculation and the attitude of the people are said to have been encour-
aging. The Lieutenant-Governor hopes that the scheme for training District
Board Veterinary Assistants to perform inoculations for rinderpest at the Muktesar
Bacteriological Laboratory will bear fruit. Anthrax claimed a considerable
number of victims, while foot-and-mouth disease was again prevalent, especially in
Kángra.
11. The grant of Rs. 2,000 sanctioned by the Local Government for the
purchase of Hissar bulls for different districts was made full use of, 16 bulls
being supplied as against o in the preceding year.
12. The Veterinary Dispensaries, which, as in the previous year, were 10
in number, supplemented by three branch institutions at outlying tahsíls of the
Siálkot District, are well reported on, and it is hoped that their number will be
increased when the reorganization of Veterinary Assistants is accomplished.
13. The number of castrations by Veterinary Assistants shows a decrease
of 98, as compared with the previous year in which the fodder scarcity had not
produced its full effect in reducing the condition of the young stock to such an
extent as to necessitate a postponement of the operation in many cases.
14. The provincial cost of the Civil Veterinary Department was
Rs. 16,009 as against Rs. 21,045 last year, the saving being chiefly under the
head of travelling allowance.
15. His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor agrees with the Director of
Land Records and Agriculture that Veterinary-Lieutenants Trydell and Smith
deserve credit for the way in which they performed their duties during the year,
and wishes to express his thanks to Mr. Sykes for an interesting Report.
ORDER.—Ordered that a copy of the Report and the above Remarks be
submitted to the Government of India in the Revenue and Agricultural Depart-
ment and the Inspector-General, Civil Veterinary Department in India; also that
the Remarks be published in the Punjab Government Gazette and be communi-
cated to the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab.
By order of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor,
A. H. DIACK,
Revenue and Finl. Secy, to Government, Punjab.
Punjab Government Press, Lahore—14-8-01—375.