Thirty-sixth Annual iConvention 907 



pression of jour views in regard to what ought to be done would 

 do very much towards solving this question. 



Another suggestion has been made, and that is that as the law 

 now stands the skim milk and whey that comes from our butter 

 factories and (mi- clieese factories and goes back to the farm and is 

 fed to calves and pigs, is a prolific source of the spread of this 

 disease and that some provision ought to be enacted by whicli this 

 product should be pasteurized before it is returned to the farm 

 for food. 



Another important question relates to the indemnity which the 

 state ought to pay for a diseased animal whicli is condemned and 

 slaughtered by order of the state. Men will differ, and differ 

 very widely, upon this subject, yet all must agree that a diseased 

 animal is an unprofitable animal in any dairy herd ; that no dairy- 

 man can afford to retain in his herd an animal afflicted with 

 tuberculosis w^here it is advanced to such a stage as to imperil the 

 health of his other animals, and that fact ought to be taken into 

 account when it comes to fixing the indemnity which should 

 be received for condemned animals. And it has been suggested 

 that in cases where an animal is condemned as a result of a 

 physical examination, that is where the disease has advanced to 

 such an extent that it can be detected by clinical symptoms, or in 

 case of the tuberculin test where on post mortem the disease is 

 found to be generalized — that in those cases the animal is un- 

 profitable and dangerous for the owner to retain in his herd and 

 that fact ought to be taken into account when the compensation 

 which is to be allowed by the state is determined. 



And so at a conference recently held in Albany on this subject, 

 at which a considerable number of representatives of this organi- 

 zation were present, as well as milk consumers and consumers of 

 other dairy products and health officials, it seemed to be the con- 

 census of opinion that if in those two cases the indemnity was 

 fixed at $15 for each animal destroyed, giving to the o^\^ler also 

 the hide and the carcass when passed for human food, that justice 

 would be done the individual. 



I speak of these things, gentlemen, for the reason that they in 

 some form are likely to come before the legislature at the ap- 



