(6)

Experimental treatment of Rinderpest was conducted with
"Kaolin" in the districts of Lucknow and Kheri but it was observed
that the drug had no beneficial effect when the affected animals were
passing through the height of the severity of the disease. It was,
however, found useful in checking diarrhoea when the acute symptoms
have passed.

23. Four hundred and fifty-one cases were treated at head-
quarter as against 412 in the year preceding. A sum of Rs. 1,032-8-0
was realized as treatment charges, etc., against Rs. 940 last year.
The cases treated were mostly of special interest or of an obscure
nature.

                            CHAPTER VI.

                    BREEDING OPERATIONS.

                    (i) Horse and pony stallions.

Table X.

24. There were 50 stallions on the roll of the department for
horse-breeding in the "non-selected" districts
of this province not counting the districts of
Meerut, Bulandshahr, Muzaffarnagar and Aligarh which are under
the administrative control of the Army Remount department for
this purpose. Three stallions were purchased during the year and
2 destroyed being unfit for further stud work. Thus the balance
left at the close of the year was 57.

Table XI.

25. Fifty-two stallions were employed at stud during the year
and the covering operations performed by them
numbered 1,759 against 1.901 in the preceding
year.

20. During the year a new stallion stand has been opened at
Budakhera, district Saharanpur. in place of one at Ghatera in the
same district which had to be closed down for continual mismanage-
ment on the part of the darindah. The stallion stands at Maurani-
pur and Lalitpur, district Jhansi, have been closed for financial
stringency by the district board. Stallion stands at Maduapur, dis-
trict Basti and at Majhauli, district Gorakhpur had also to be closed
for the same reasons. A new stallion stand has, however, been
established at Mirzapur and is gaining popularity. The Gunnaur
stallion stand which had to be temporarily closed and could not be
re-opened last year owing to the sudden death of the darindah, has
been re-opened in the year under review.

27. It is gratifying to note that continued improvement is
being shown by the progeny of Government stallions.

Stallion dépôt.

28. The stallion depot at Moradabad afforded rest and treat-
ment to the stallions that came in from the
district and good work has been done there.