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disease breaks out or is brought into the state; provides for 

 the local boards of health reporting to the commissioner the exist- 

 ence of any such disease coining to their attention ; gives the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture power to inspect premises and quarantine 

 farms and for detention and destruction of animals ; provides for 

 the care of diseased animals and for experiments with them with 

 the purpose of developing methods or means of exterminating or 

 controlling the disease; provides for issuing a notice to the people 

 of the existence of any such infectious or contagious disease either 

 within the state or any geographical district of the state, and gives 

 the commissioner power to issue a warning to the people to seclude 

 animals and take such precautions relative to them as the case 

 may warrant for the prevention of the spread of such disease; pro- 

 vides for the appraisal of animals which are to be condemned and 

 killed, and for the amounts that shall be paid for animals suffering 

 with certain diseases, namely, tuberculosis and glanders. In the 

 case of tuberculosis, this is 50 per cent, of the appraised value if the 

 disease is generalized, and 80 per cent, if localized; in the case 

 of glanders not manifest by clinical symptoms, 80 per cent, of the 

 appraised value, and in a case of glanders manifest by clinical 

 symptoms, 50 per cent, of the appraised value. But no animals 

 shall be paid for unless they shall have been within the state a 

 given length of time, namely, animals suffering from tuberculosis 

 must have been within the state at least G months ; if suffering 

 with glanders they must have been within the state at least 12 

 months. The appraised value of animals, however, is limited as 

 follows: if the animal to be appraised is a bovine animal, its 

 appraised value shall not exceed the sum of $75, and if it be an 

 equine animal it shall not exceed the sum of $120. This article 

 also provides against the slaughtering, selling and offering for sale 

 of meat from diseased or immature calves, providing that a calf 

 under 4 weeks of age when slaughtered shall be considered 

 immature meat. 



Article 6 provides for the prevention of fraud in the sale of 

 paris green and insecticides and fungicides or essential ingredients 

 thereof. 



Article 7 provides for the inspection and analysis of concen- 

 trated commercial feeding stuffs sold or offered for sale upon the 



