22 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



cially in cows giving milk that is consumcl by the public J.nd 

 cattle killed for beef or intended for food and found tubercu- 

 lous. The checking of the spread of the disease among cattle is 

 a great expense to the State and a great loss to the owner. We 

 have also tried to stamp out glanders among horses that is so 

 contagious to man and horse and can be spread so rapidly. It 

 cannot be controlled when once contracted by man or horse. 

 There is no medical assistance for a man who contracts this 

 terrible disease, and in a horse there is no way of checking it 

 after he once contracts it, except by destroying the animal. 

 This disease can be spread very rapidly by a diseased horse, 

 endangering many valuable horses that come in contact with 

 him, and it can be spread rapidly by drinking fountains in 

 public streets which so many horses visit daily and in the stables 

 where glandered horses come in contact with others. 



We have also cared for many sheep and hogs that have been 

 found to be tuberculous when killed for food, thereby prevent- 

 ing the chance of the carcass being offered for food. 



This work was done by Mr. V^an W. Carll as Live Stock 

 Sanitary Commissioner. Mr. Carll was practically Field Agent, 

 covering nearly all sections of the State where animals were 

 reported as being diseased and his report can be found in 

 another part of this book, giving the number of animals con- 

 demned and the expense of conducting the work. 



WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



The work of State Sealer of Weights and Measures was 

 added to this Department without any appropriation, and the 

 Governor and Council gave me an order for $2,000 of unex- 

 pended money in this Department in order to purchase a set of 

 state standards. After purchasing we were obliged to send 

 them to Washington to have them compared and sealed by the 

 United States standards, and on account of many other states 

 in the Union taking up this work there were many state stand- 

 ards to be certified and we were delayed sometime in receiving 

 our standards. We now have one of the best state outfits in 

 the country, for doing the work of state sealing, but without 

 an appropriation and not being able to put a man on the work, 



