REPORT OF LIVE STOCK SANITARY 

 COMMISSIONER. 



To Hon. J. P. Buckley, Commissioner of Agriculture: 



I herewith respectfully submit my report as Live Stock 

 Sanitary Commissioner, from ]May ist to December 31st, 191 1. 



Since j\Iay ist, iQii, when I took up my duties as Live Stock 

 Sanitary Commissioner, I have found that among the cattle 

 where the tuberculin test has been applied year after year theie 

 is a very small percentage of tuberculosis found ; but in the 

 sections where the test has not been carried out, there is found a 

 ver}' large percentage of tuberculous cattle. Most of the farmers 

 and breeders are taking up the testing of their her..s. The 

 law requires that all cattle coming into the State shall be tested 

 within 30 days of arrival, regardless of all other tests , and 

 that all pure bred cattle that are to be transferred from one 

 part of the State to another, and cattle exhibited at the fair.', 

 for dairying and breeding purposes, where the State gives 

 aid, must be tested with tuberculin within one year of the tiine 

 of the exhibition. This is of great assistance in stamping out 

 tuberculosis among the cattle of this State. The cities of Port- 

 land and Waterville require that all the milk supply be delivered 

 from cows that have been tested within a year, and many of 

 the creameries in the State pay one cent more per pound f ^r 

 butter fat from cows that are tested than from cows that are 

 not tested. 



Our State is doing more to stamp out disease among animals 

 than any other State in the XTnion ; and it will be of splendid 

 assistance to the owners of cattle in the State and will put 

 Maine in the front rank, for animals that are free from tuber- 

 culosis, as well as other contagious and infectious diseases. The 

 new law requires that horses being brought into the State shall 



