Art. 5.] Diseases of Domestic Animals 1921 



such test shall be made by a medical or veterinary practitioner 

 designated by the commissioner. The commissioner may also in 

 his discretion order such tuberculin tost to be made, and if the 

 animal responds to such test, he may cause such animal to be 

 slauiilitercd or held in strict quarantine. (As ame^ided by chapter 

 S15 of the Laws of 1909.) 



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§9-4- Care of diseased animals; experiments. If after exami- Slaughter 



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nation an animal is, in the judgment of the person making the " 

 examination, suti'eriug from tuberculosis, such animal shall l)e 

 slaughtered under the provisions of this article, or, if the com- 

 missioner deems that a due regard for the public health warrants 

 it, he may enter into a written agreement with the owner, subject 

 to such conditions as the commissioner of agriculture may pre- 

 scribe, for the separation and quarantine of such diseased animal 

 or animals. Subject to the regTilations of the department of agri- Q 

 culture, such diseased animal or animals may continue to be used -^"imais 

 for breeding purposes and its or their milk, after pasteurization 

 at one hundred and eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit, may be used 

 for the manufacture of butter or cheese or for sale. The young Young o: 



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of any such diseased animal or animals shall, immediately after ^"""^is. 

 birth, be separated from their mothers, but may be fed the milk 

 drawn from such affected animal or animals so separated and 

 quarantined after such milk has been pasteurized as herein pro- 

 vided. The owner of a herd of cattle, within the state, mav apply Appnoa- 



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to the commissioner of agriculture for examination of his herd tes^t!'^''"'''' 

 by the tuberculin test; said application to be in writing upon a 

 blank form provided by the commissioner of agriculture and 

 to include an agreement on the part of the owner or owners of 

 the herd to improve faulty sanitar\^ conditions ; to disinfect his 

 premises, should diseased cattle be found, and to follow instruc- 

 tions of the commissioner of agriculture designed to prevent the 

 reinfection of the herd and to suppress the disease or prevent the 

 spread thereof. The commissioner of agriculture shall, as soon 

 as practicable, cause such cattle to be examined accordingly, sub- 

 ject to the provisions of this chapter. When the commissioner cer^tmca^e 

 deems that the conditions warrant it he may make and issue to°f '"^'■''■ 

 such owner a certificate that upon such examination such herd 

 was found free from tuberculosis or that the owner has complied 



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