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past fiscal year. The work for this year shows a great increase in the 

 number of tuberculin tests applied, and includes testing in connec- 

 tion with the eradication of tuberculosis from a State or the locality 

 surrounding a city requiring a tuberculin test for the protection of 

 its milk supply, and testing of cattle at stock yards for interstate 

 movement. In cooperating with States and cities it has been cus- 

 tomary for them to place veterinarians in the field to work in con- 

 junction with this Bureau's inspectors. These investigations have 

 served an excellent purpose in educating the public to the impor- 

 tance of the eradication of bovine tuberculosis as a public-health 

 measure, and have brought many cattle owners to a realization of 

 the economic value of eradicating the disease from their herds. 



During the past year the number of States and Territories requir- 

 ing a satisfactory tuberculin test as a qualification for the entrance 

 of cattle for dairy or breeding purposes from other States or Terri- 

 tories has increased to a total of 35. Unfortunately, in many States 

 there has been no adequate appropriation of funds for the indemnifi- 

 cation of owners, the proper enforcement of the laws, or carrying on 

 the work. To assist States in getting the work started, and to avoid 

 delays and inconvenience to shippers, the application of the tuberculin 

 test to cattle by this Bureau was undertaken at a number of new points. 

 Toward the end of the fiscal year it was decided that as the inter- 

 state tests had given such general satisfaction, the Bureau would 

 establish testing stations at the majority of stock yards through which 

 cattle pass and where government inspection is being mahitained, and 

 it was deemed advisable to place the interstate testing of cattle under 

 the direction of the Inspection Division at the beginning of the new 

 fiscal year, as that division already had control of the regular yard 

 inspections. 



The following table shows the cooperative tuberculin testing per- 

 formed during the past fiscal year for the interstate movement of 

 cattle: 



Results of tuberculin tests of dairy and breeding cattle for interstate movement, 



fiscal year 19 JO. 



a Testing recently inaugurated. 



