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ticable, there have been printed posters, giving information as 

 to the new law and its requirements, issued by the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, distributed all along the borders of our state, 

 the same information being inserted in the various stock papers. 

 In conjunction with this, our assistant commissioners, veterina- 

 rians and agents have been advised to make special effort to 

 ascertain the shipment of any cattle into this state. Investiga- 

 tions are then made as to whether or not the shippers of such 

 cattle have regularly complied with the law. If not, sueh 

 cattle are to be detained in quarantine until duly examined by 

 a veterinarian representing the Department of Agriculture. The 

 knowledge of the law and its workings has now become very wide 

 spread. Upon notification of those wishing to make shipment of 

 cattle into this state for breeding or dairying purposes, our regu- 

 lar form, giving detailed information to facilitate such ship- 

 ments, is at once forwarded. 



Section 95, as amended by chapter 316, Laws of L909, gives 

 the Commissioner of Agriculture the power, in addition to 

 employing veterinarians and medical practitioners, to approve of 

 the work of qualified veterinarians other than those in the employ 

 of the department. This, in some eases, makes it possible to 

 give more prompt attention to the suppression or control of a 

 contagions disease, thereby making the work more satisfactory 

 and loss expensive. 



Section 64a, as added to by chapter 588, requires that all tests 

 for tuberculosis, together with description of animals tested, loca 

 tion of premises where lest was made, name and address of owner 

 or custodian and such other information as the commissioner 

 may call fur shall be reported to the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 within one week after such test is made. It further requires that 

 any bovine animal in which tuberculosis has been clearly diag- 

 nosed shall be branded with a capital T, unless such animal 

 appears physically sound or permission is granted by the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture to the owner or custodian to hold such 

 animal without branding. It further requires that the use and 

 sale of tuberculin within the state shall be duly reported to the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



