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while in North Carolina 27 counties have appropriated about 

 $80,000, and in Illinois 34 counties have appropriated about $135,000. 

 The money actually spent by all counties engaged in the area work 

 increased from about $60,000 in 1922 to $133,000 in 1923. 



In the District of Columbia 587 cattle were tested and 14 reactors 

 were removed, 11 of w^hich were in one herd known to have been 

 previously infected and to which additions from outside the District 

 had been made some months before the test. There were also tested 

 for admission to the District 211 animals, from w^hich 8 i-eactors were 

 removed. 



An advance step looking to future operations under the area 

 project was taken in amending the uniform methods and rules by 

 providing for what are termed modified accredited areas. Such an 

 area is one in which all the cattle have been tuberculin tested under 

 Federal and State supervision and in which the number of reactors 

 does not exceed one-half of 1 per cent of the total cattle. The in- 

 fected herds remaining are to be placed under State quarantine, and 

 the intrastate movement of cattle into such territories is to be con- 

 trolled by proper State regulations. This amendment having been 

 approved by a majority of the States and by the bureau, arrange- 

 ments were 'made during the last part of the fiscal year for the re- 

 lease of 17 counties as modified accredited areas, and an order to 

 that effect (B. A. I. Order 283) was issued July 23, 1923. Cattle 

 from these areas will be allowed to move interstate for a period of 

 three years without retesting, provided proper certificates are used 

 and the cattle are identified. The counties referred to are as fol- 

 lows: Dearborn County, Ind. ; Hillsdale, Charlevoix, Antrim, and 

 Emmet Counties, Mich.; Scotland, Rowan, Pender, New Hanover, 

 Davie, Davidson, Cumberland, Cabarrus, Buncombe, and Forsyth 

 Counties, N. C. ; and Bradley and Marshall Counties, Tenn. 



STATISTICS OF SLAUGHTER AND INDEMNITY. 



Statistics of the slaughter of reacting cattle, the indemnity al- 

 lowed, salvage realized, etc., are given in the following table : 



Cattle slaughtered, appraised value, indemnity alloiced, and salvage realized in 



work of tuberculosis eradication. 



Salvage paid to State. 



