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led to the testing of western cattle at Buffalo, Albany and else- 

 where, and the detention of such as failed under the test, to be 

 sold too often to the unsuspecting New York stockowner. The 

 tests have often been made by the inspectors of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, who have no legal right to interfere with the 

 condemmed cattle unless the attempt is made to move them into 

 another state, and in the absence of any restriction b}^ the 

 municipal or state health officers, the owner or dealer is at liberty 

 to sell such tuberculous cattle in open market. 



If the test is made by a veterinarian who is not a national nor 

 state official the same holds true ; he has no authority to forbid 

 J:he sale of the diseased and condemned cattle. 



Again, private stockowners have had their own herds tested, 

 and have removed from the herd those that failed to stand the 

 test, but there is nothing to show what became of such con- 

 demned animals, and in the absence of a state indemnity and 

 slaughter, there is much to be suspected. 



These are hints of the evils that have been precipitated for a 

 length of time upon our New York live stock industr3^ Day by 

 day our herds are being systematically infected b}^ the introduction 

 of the tuberculous off scouring of other states and of our own, 

 and we raised not a finger to stop it. 



Further, in the interests of the consuming public we have to 

 consider that we have no inspection in our little local abattoirs 

 and no guarantee of the meats there killed. And meanwhile we 

 are giving free rein to every evil disposed dealer, to add to our 

 herds the tuberculous animals drawn from the states around us. 



The cr3'ing need of New York to-da}' is first to block these 

 streams of infection, which are now practically invited into our 

 herds from other commonwealths, and second to inaugurate a 

 systematic effort to rid our own herds, which are the sources of 

 our dairy and meat products from this scourge. 



