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vention must go on forever; with extiuction it will be brought to 

 a final end. 



To be effective, disinfection should be made the work of trained 

 state officials. There is no more reason why this should be 

 charged on the stock owner than that he should bear alone the 

 money loss of his animals. Both are means of the extinction of 

 the contagion with the one object of the public good. 



G. No Provision for Systematic Work. 



The existing law fails to provide means for dealing with tuber- 

 culosis in all parts of the state, or to enjoin that the limited 

 means provided shall be applied in a sj'stematic manner upon 

 any given area. Attention is therefore given to the herds whose 

 owners make special application for inspection and those that are 

 reported by others, and thus the inspectors are to-day in West- 

 chester county, to-morrow in Erie, and the next in Tioga or 

 Oswego. Single reported herds are dealt with and the great bulk 

 of stock in the same district are passed over unnoticed. Is it to 

 be wondered that complaints of partiality are heard ? With the 

 utterly inadequate appropriation this condition of things is per- 

 haps inevitable, but it is certainly not the wa^^ to suppress the 

 disease. A system that wipes out the disease on one farm, and at 

 once leaves it to be reinfected, from a diseased herd on the next 

 place perhaps, is anything but commendable. If the means can 

 be afforded to deal with the disease over the entire state, let this 

 be done ; but if not then let the appropriation be applied to a 

 given geographical district and let this be purified as a whole and 

 held so, while the good work is extended to other regions.. 



Insufficient Indemnity a False Economy. 



In conclusion, it is right to emphasize the importance of a due 

 consideration of property rights. Sanitary laws which in any 

 way ignore or disregard the rights of property have within them- 

 selves the seeds of defeat. If within our municipal abattoir the 

 butcher cannot conduct his business as well and economically as 

 in his own establishment, he or his competitors will evade the 

 law in some way. If the stock owner is not fairly reimbursed for 



