150 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



destruction of all animals in which premonitory symptoms 

 appear, and those which have been exposed to the infection. 



As this is a great public evil, in which the whole community, 

 both producers and consumers, is directly and in the highest 

 degree interested, and as it would be the greatest national 

 calamity which could fall upon the country if allowed to spread 

 and extend beyond its present limits, it seems eminently proper 

 that the legislature should take the most prompt and strenuous 

 measures to stop it where it is, by ordering the immediate 

 destruction of all infected herds. 



CHARLES L. FLINT, ■ 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 Boston, January 25, 1860. 



