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of milk is lessened and to keep his customers he must go into the 

 market and buy milk from others. 



It is quite evident that in many cases of dairy herds and of 

 valuable thoroughbred animals, an indemnity amounting to even 

 the sound market value of the animals killed comes far short of 

 reimbursing the owner for his actual losses. 



These considerations should be taken fully into account, before 

 adopting any proposal to fix a maximum sum or rigid rule for 

 estimating values. The wording of the present law "the actual 

 value ' ' is perhaps as good as any, only provision should be made 

 to have able and incorruptible appraisers, and a restricting clause 

 might be introduced to prohibit or minimize awards for animals 

 recently introduced into the State. 



Disinfection should as a rule be done by State employes, thus 

 relieving the stockowner of the expense and securing effective 

 results. The disposal of carcasses may also in many cases be 

 justly charged on the State. This cannot be an entering wedge 

 for corruption, as excessive indemnity would be, and yet it would 

 relieve the stockowners of an outlay that should be met by the 

 public at large. 



The disposal of infected manure and other products must be 

 under the direction of the inspector, but must evidently be under- 

 taken by the stockowner himself. 



Points like the above cannot be too strongly insisted on, as they 

 determine success or failure. In the extinction of cattle lung- 

 plague in the United States the strict attention to such accessories 

 proved the main factors in the speedy success. In Cook Co., 

 111., I took charge of the work on behalf of the United States 

 Government in April, 1887, and in July we had done away with 

 the last acute case of the disease. But the whole city was sys- 

 tematically purged, stable by stable, no communication between 

 sick and healthy was possible, condemned cattle were quickly 

 disposed of, and in two weeks each owner received from Wash- 

 ington a check for the amount of his indemnity ; thorough disin- 

 fection was affected by a government corps so that no stable 

 ever needed to be disinfected a second time, and effective meas- 

 ures were taken to prevent the introduction of new cattle from 

 infected localities. No state was ever .so speedily cleared of this 



