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to the Commission before the animals were released from 

 quarantine. 



Some who have thought best to disregard this rule and 

 have brought in one or more head without either the permit 

 or test have been looked up by the Commission and asked to 

 pay a small fine which has been turned over to the state treas- 

 ury. This the Commission have done believing it to the best 

 way for some individuals to remember the laws of the state. 

 All cases coming to our knowledge have been looked after and 

 our rules enforced. By this method many head of cattle that 

 would have done injury to our herds have been kept out. 



All the New England states except Connecticut have 

 quarantine regulations, some as strict, but none more so than 

 Vermont. 



Several of the Middle and Western states have within 

 the year made and are enforcing strict quarantine regulations 

 of cattle brought to them from New England and New York. 



The table will show the number found diseased and killed 

 also those tested coming from without the state that were re- 

 turned as soon as condemned. 



We would call your attention to the re-tests showing that 

 upon the second test the disease is generally stamped out if 

 our rules for disinfection of stables is well observed. 



Several complaints have come to the Commission from the 

 selectmen of a town, director of a creamery or from some in- 

 dividuals when we have felt it our duty to look into the mat- 

 ter, and the Commission have in all cases prevailed upon the 

 owner to have the questionable herd tested, and in nearly all 

 cases found the disease, sometimes to an alarming extent. 



The Commission arranged with the owner of one large 

 herd to have the tuberculin test applied. The owner perhaps 

 knowing the disease to be there to a considerable extent, al- 

 though working in every way to rid his herd of the disease, 

 except to have the tuberculin test used, had in the past four 

 years labored in vain for seventy-eight of the ninet} r -two head 

 were slaughtered and found diseased. Upon a re-test six 

 more were taken leaving only eight of the herd. 



These cattle were kept in a light and well ventilated 

 stable and with but a very few exceptions, to the inexperienc- 

 ed eye would be considered healthy. They were in fine con- 

 dition, many of them good beef, yet upon slaughtering, four- 

 fifths of them were diseased all through. 



The Commission were informed after the slaughter that the 

 owner had in the past four years quietly buried nearly as 

 many as were killed in order to keep his herd looking healthy. 



Another herd into which many cattle were imported from 

 time to time, the Commission persuaded the owner to have 



