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9th. Don't take a cow which is in ill health or low condition, 

 especially one with cough, nasal discharge, foul breath, hard 

 nodules under the skin, diseased udder, swollen loins or joints 

 or a tendency to scour or bloat. 



lOth. Test every fresh animal with tuberculin before admit- 

 ting it to 3^our herd, unless it has been recently tested and has 

 not since been expos'ed to possible infection. 



nth. Don't admit strange cattle to house, field or 3^ard with 

 your own. Keep them apart until tested with tuberculin. 



12th. Keep each animal in your herd strictly to its own stall 

 and manger. 



13th. Board up the partitions of the stalls in front so that no 

 two cows can feed from the same manger nor lick each other. 



14th. Be especially observant of the older cows and on the 

 slightest sign of ill health separate and subject to the tuberculin 

 test. 



15th. In case a herd of cattle is found to be tuberculous sub- 

 ject to the tuberculin test all the domestic animals that have 

 mingled with them freeh' and fed from the same troughs. Re- 

 move those that show" a reaction. 



1 6th. Exterminate the vermin (rats, mice, sparrows) in a 

 building where tuberculosis has prevailed. 



17th. Let no consumptive person attend on cattle or other 

 live stock, nor prepare their food. 



EXTINCTION OF TUBERCULOSIS BY STATE ACTION. 



It is out of the sphere of the private breeder or dairyman to 

 enter on the question of state sanitary police, yet no one is more 

 deeply interested in the general enforcement of such measures as 

 would banish the existing dangers which attend on the purchase 

 of strange animals and their products. In recent years the rigid 

 supervision of herds in the New England States has driven 

 many infected cattle into New York to spread tuberculosis in 

 previously healthy herds, and to increase it in those that were 

 alread}-^ affected. 



The exclusion of cattle seeking to enter Pennsylvania or the 

 New England States, which were not accompanied by the certi- 

 ficate that they had successfully stood the tuberculin test, has 



