The methods formerly pursued by the State have been found too extravagant and expensive. Similar measures were tried in Belgium, and proved there to be too costly.

During the past year cows that showed marked physical evidence of tuberculosis were condemned and killed; a few have been passed as fit for beef, but most of them were only fit to be rendered. When cows can be condemned on a physical examination the work can be done at a less cost than under the former system, when the agent tested cows with tuberculin and then reported the results to the office and received instructions which to kill and which to release.

Under the present system the agent examines, appraises, and kills a diseased cow all at one visit. This system seems to work satisfactorily, and very few complaints have ar sen under it.

Cows with nodulated udders have been tested with tuberculin, as have also some doubtful cases; if they reacted they were destroyed.

Reducing the limit of value from $60 to $40 has resulted in a saving to the State. The appraisals have been very evenly made, and the average value, $22.50 per head, is much lower than it formerly was. The work of the local inspectors seems to be sufficient to protect the people from the milk of cows owned in Massachusetts which are sufficiently diseased to be a danger to the public health, besides which, the badly diseased cows are the greater sources of danger to others.

eliminate the dangers which under certain circumstances might result from the consumption of flesh from tuberculous animals:

(1) In examining the carcasses of slaughtered animals it is necessary that all the professional inspectors follow certain rules which will insure that every case of tuberculosis is discovered and that the extent of the tuberculous lesions are ascertained.

(2) Of greatest importance is the unfailing discovery and the careful removal of the affected organs, together with their appendages.

(3) When tubercular centers are located in the flesh, the infected regions, as bounded by the surrounding lymph glands, are to be treated in the same way as the infected organs-that is, when it can be ascertained beyond a doubt that infection is limited to a certain region.

When the tuberculous alterations in the meat are confined to the lymph glands located therein, the muscle parts may be dissected away from the bones, joints, blood vessels, and lymphatics, and when cut in small pieces and thoroughly steril zed be offered for sale as food.

In the case of fat animals the melting out of the fatty tissue is allowed when care is taken to remove the tuberculous centers.

(4) In all cases of local tuberculosis. or in such where the generalization is limited in extent and confined to the internal organs, the meat may be offered for sale in raw condition. When, however, the tuberculous processes are of considerable extent, the meat should be sold under declaration.

(5) In all cases where there is pronounced emaciation or symptoms of recent generalization (swelling of the spleen and lymphatic glands or miliary tubercu losis of the spleen, liver, lungs, and kidneys), the whole of the meat, with excep tion of the melted fat, must be condemned as unfit for human food.

(6) In cases where the local character of tuberculosis and the harmlessness of the meat are doubtful (especially when there are tuberculous caverns and incipient derangement of nutrition), the whole of the meat is to be sterilized before being handed over as fit for food.

(7) The sterilized meat and the melted fat are to be sold under declaration.

OF THE MILK.

(1) Cows, goats, and other animals kept for dairy purposes must be subjected to regular veterinary control.

(2) The milk of tuberculous animals is not to be used for human food if the animals are emaciated or affected with tuberculosis of the udder.

(3) All emaciated animals and those suffering from tuberculosis of the udder should be destroyed without delay, as it is now done in Denmark and Sweden, and the owners indemnified by the State.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
BOARD OF CATTLE COMMISSIONERS.

PERMIT TO BRING NEAT CATTLE INTO MASSACHUSETTS, TO ALL POINTS EXCEPT
THE QUARANTINE STATIONS AT BRIGHTON, WATERTOWN, AND SOMERVLILE.

All persons bringing cattle into this State, except calves under 6 months old or beef cattle for immediate slaughter, must have them tested with tuberculin prior to shipment or after arrival in this State, unless special permission to the contrary is given by this board.

Certificates of tuberculin test must be mailed at once directly to the Massachusetts Cattle Commissioners. Cattle brought into Massachusetts on permit are to remain in quarantine on owner's or consignee's premises until released by the inspector of animals of the town to which they are sent, or by order of the Board of Cattle Commissioners or one of its members or agents. All persons shipping or driving cattle into Massachusetts must have a permit unless sent by rail to one of the quarantine stations named above.

The following is a notice to inspectors of the permit, as shown above, being issued to importers:

to bring

DEAR SIR: We have this day issued a permit to cattle to your town. Upon arrival of same you will please notify this board on blank provided below, and if they have not been tested with tuberculin we will order them quarantined until the owner has them so tested, at his expense and risk, by some one satisfactory to us.

Yours, truly,

Chairman.

MASS.,

1900.

To MASSACHUSETTS CATTLE COMMISSIONERS:

I hereby notify you of the arrival of - cattle brought into the State by Mr. on permit issued by you as above stated.

Remarks:
Yours, truly,

Inspector of Animals for said town.

MICHIGAN.

Michigan has a general law concerning contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, but no special law relative to bovine tuberculosis. The State Veterinarian is doing something against tuberculosis under this law, as will be seen by a reference to the regulations.

The work against contagious diseases of animals is done by a State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, consisting of three persons appointed by the Governor. The Governor also appoints a State Veterinary Surgeon.

The commission is "authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, and enforce such quarantine, sanitary, and other regulations as it may deem necessary.'

It is made the duty of any person who has knowledge of the existence or the suspicion of existence of any contagious or infectious disease to report it to the commission. Upon the receipt of such information the commission or any member of it shall, if satisfied that such disease does exist, establish temporary quarantine and prescribe such regulations as will prevent the spread of the contagion or infection, and shall notify the State Veterinarian, who shall make an examination and report the result to the commission. The commission shall then prescribe rules and regulations for controlling the diseases and prescribe the lines of a quarantine district. The Governor establishes the quarantine by proclamation.

The commission is empowered to destroy affected or exposed animals after appraisement. A certificate of such appraisement is issued to the owner and the full amount is paid upon approval by the Governor. The right to indemnity does not extend to animals which may have been brought into the State in a diseased condition or which may come from a State or Territory where the disease with which the animals are affected exists, nor to animals brought into the State in violation of law or rules and regulations, or that were diseased or suspected of being diseased when they come into possession of the claimant.

It is made a misdemeanor to keep, sell, ship, drive, trade, or give away any animal having a contagious or infectious disease. It is also a misdemeanor to bring such animals into the State.

The Governor, when he has reason to believe that contagious or infectious diseases exist in other States or Territories, may issue a proclamation of quarantine in regard to such districts prohibiting the importation into Michigan of animals therefrom unless accompanied by a certificate of health.

The commission is empowered to cooperate with the Bureau of Animal Industry in the work of suppression and prevention of contagious diseases.

LAW.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a Live Stock Sanitary Commission and a State Veterinarian, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and to prevent and suppress contagious and infectious diseases among the live stock of the State. (Approved June 10, 1885. Section 23 added by act approved May 13, 1887.)

SECTION 1. The people of the State of Michigan enact, That a commission is hereby established which shall be known under the name and style of "The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission." The commission shall consist of three commissioners who are practical agriculturists and engaged in the live-stock indus

tries of the State, who shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. One shall be appointed for the term of six years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of two years, whose term of office shall commence on the second Tuesday of July of the year in which they are appointed and shall continue until their successors are appointed and qualified. And at each succeeding biennial session of the Legislature there shall be appointed in like manner one commissioner who shall hold his office six years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified. The Governor shall also appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a competent and skilled veterinary surgeon for the State, who, at the time of such appointment, shall be a graduate in good standing of a recognized college of veterinary surgery, and who shall hold his office two years from the second Tuesday of July of the year he is appointed and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The Governor shall also appoint every two years thereafter a competent and skilled veterinarian having the qualifications above mentioned, whose term of office shall be for two years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified.

SEC. 2. Said commissioners and veterinary surgeon before they enter upon the duties of their office shall each take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file the same with the Secretary of State.

SEC. 3. Each commissioner shall receive the sum of $3 per day and necessary expenses for the time actually spent in the discharge of his duties; and the veterinary surgeon shall receive the sum of $5 per day and necessary expenses for time when employed.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the commission to protect the health of the domestic animals of the State from all contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, and for this purpose it is hereby authorized and empow ered to establish, maintain, and enforce such quarantine, sanitary, and other regulations as it may deem necessary.

SEC. 5. [As amended by Act No. 105, Public Acts, 1887.] It shall be the duty of any person who discovers, suspects, or has reason to believe that any domestic animal belonging to him or in his charge, or that may come under his observation belonging to other parties, is affected with any disease, whether it be a contagious or infectious disease, to immediately report such fact, belief, or suspicion to the Love Stock Sanitary Commission, or a member thereof.

SEC. 6. [Section 6 was repealed by Act No. 105, Public Acts, 1887.]

SEC. 7. The commission or any member thereof to whom the existence of any infectious or contagious disease of domestic animals is reported shall forth with proceed to the place where such domestic animal or animals are and examine the same, and if in his or their opinion any infectious or contagious disease does exist he or they shall prescribe such temporary quarantine and regulations as will prevent the spread of the contagion or infection, and notify the State Veterinarian, who shall forthwith proceed to the place where said contagious or infectious disease is said to exist and examine said animal or animals and report his or their finding to the said commission, who then shall prescribe such rules and regulations as in their judgment the exigencies of the case may require for the effectual suppression and eradication of the disease, and for that purpose the said commission may list and describe the domestic animals affected with such disease and those which have been exposed thereto and included within the infected district or premises so defined and quarantined with such reasonable certainty as would lead to their identification, and no domestic animal liable to become infected with the disease or capable of communicating the same shall be permitted to enter or leave the district, premises, or grounds so quarantined, except by the authority of the commission. The said commission shall also, from time to time, give and enforce such directions, and prescribe such rules and regulations as to separating, mode of handling, treating, feeding, and caring for such diseased and exposed animals

as it shall deem necessary to prevent the two classes of animals from coming in contact with each other, and perfectly isolate them from all other domestic animals which have not been exposed thereto and which are susceptible of becoming infected with the disease, and the said commission and veterinarian are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any grounds or premises to carry out the provisions of this act. When in the opinion of the commission it shall be necessary, to prevent the further spread of any contagious or infectious disease among the live stock of the State, to destroy animals affected with or which have been exposed to any such disease, it shall determine what animals shall be killed, and appraise the same, as hereinafter provided, and cause the same to be killed and the carcasses disposed of as in their judgment will best protect the health of domestic animals of the locality.

SEC. 8. When the commission shall have determined the quarantine and other regulations necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any malignant, contagious, or infectious disease found to exist among the live stock of the State, and given their order as herein before provided, prescribing quarantine and other regulations, it shall notify the Governor thereof, who shall issue his proclamation proclaiming the boundary of such quarantine and the orders, rules, and regulations prescribed by the commission, which proclamation may be published by written or printed handbills posted within the boundaries or on the lines of the district, premises, places, or grounds quarantined: Provided, That if the commission decide that it is not necessary, by reason of the limited extent of the district in which such disease exists, that a proclamation should be issued, then none shall be issued; but such commission shall give such notice as may to it seem best to make the quarantine established by it effective.

SEC. 9. Whenever the commission shall direct the killing of any domestic animal or animals, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to appraise the animal or animals condemned, and in fixing the value thereof the commissioners shall be governed by the value of said animal or animals at the date of appraisement.

SEC. 10. Whenever any live stock shall be appraised and killed by order of the commission, it shall issue to the owner of the stock so killed a certificate showing the number and kind of animals killed and the amount, in their judgment, to which the owner is entitled, and report the same to the Governor of the State, which certificate, if approved by the Governor, shall be presented to the AuditorGeneral, who shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount therein stated, payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 11. When any animal or animals are killed under the provisions of this act by order of the commission, the owner thereof shall be paid therefor the appraised value, as fixed by the appraisement herein before provided for: Provided, The right of indemnity on account of animals killed by order of the commission under the prov sions of this act shall not extend to the owners of animals which have been brought into the State in a diseased condition, or from a State, country, Territory, or district in which the disease with which the animal is affected, or to which it has been exposed, exists. Nor shall any animal be paid for by the State which may be brought into the State in violation of any law or quarantine regulation thereof, or the owner of which shall have violated any of the provisions of this act, or disregarded any rule, regulation, or order of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission or any member thereof. Nor shall any animal be paid for by the State which came into the possession of the claimant with the claimant's knowledge that such animal was diseased, or was suspected of being diseased, or of having been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease.

SEC. 12. Any person who shall have in his possession any domestic animal affected with any contagious and infectious disease, knowing such animal to be so affected, or after having received notice that such animal is so affected who shall permit such animal to run at large, or who shall keep such animal where