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sufficient to meet all expenses in carrying on the work of 1901 

 and 1902. It must be borne in mind that the Commissioners are 

 bound by the law, which does not say that they shall stop when 

 their appropriation is exhausted. We hardly think that the law 

 will excuse the Commissioners for not doing what was necessary 

 on account of the lack of funds. 



The Commissioners in performing their duties see tubercu- 

 losis in all of the different forms and stages of the disease ; and 

 in many instances have tracked the ancestors of some diseased 

 cow from some town in Maine back to the Jersey islands or the 

 plains of Holland, proving the fact that the disease is carried 

 along for generations in some families. Once it was thought 

 by many that the Jerseys were responsible for tuberculosis. To 

 be sure they are not quite as tough and hardy, a little more deli- 

 cate, yet we have come to the conclusion that whenever an animal 

 is allowed to remain in the herd all through the different stages 

 of the disease, it has no respect for breeds, and in our opinion 

 tuberculosis should be charged to no particular breed, being con- 

 tracted by animals the same as by the human race, by a chain 

 of circumstances and conditions. 



