﻿Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
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  2. 
  If 
  cattle 
  are 
  bouglit 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  herds 
  to 
  be 
  taken 
  into 
  

   one 
  of 
  tli-e 
  adjacent 
  self-protecting 
  States 
  they 
  must 
  first 
  be 
  sub- 
  

   jected 
  to 
  the 
  tuberculin 
  test, 
  and 
  those 
  only 
  that 
  stand 
  the 
  test 
  

   can 
  be 
  shipped. 
  This 
  leaves 
  the 
  infected 
  animals 
  in 
  the 
  home 
  

   herd, 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  herd 
  has 
  been 
  reduced 
  by 
  the 
  shipment, 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   portion 
  of 
  tuberculous 
  animals 
  is 
  increased 
  and 
  the 
  concentration 
  

   of 
  tuberculosis 
  has 
  been 
  effected. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  mere 
  question 
  of 
  the 
  

   number 
  and 
  size 
  of 
  successive 
  shipments 
  when 
  there 
  will 
  be 
  none 
  

   but 
  tuberculous 
  animals 
  left 
  in 
  the 
  herd, 
  and 
  when 
  reinfection 
  will 
  

   lead 
  to 
  many 
  generalizations 
  of 
  the 
  disease. 
  

  

  3. 
  Stock 
  owTiers 
  in 
  adjacent 
  States 
  whose 
  herds 
  have 
  been 
  in- 
  

   vaded 
  by 
  tuberculosis 
  are 
  placed 
  under 
  the 
  strongest 
  temptation 
  to 
  

   have 
  their 
  cattle 
  subjected 
  to 
  the 
  tuberculin 
  test 
  and 
  to 
  ship 
  the 
  

   reacting 
  ones 
  into 
  New 
  York, 
  which 
  stands 
  with 
  open 
  arms 
  ready 
  

   to 
  welcome 
  them. 
  

  

  If 
  the 
  most 
  malignant 
  enemy 
  of 
  the 
  cattle 
  industry 
  of 
  New 
  

   York, 
  wdth 
  its 
  2,131,392 
  head 
  of 
  cattle 
  and 
  its 
  663,917,240 
  gal- 
  

   lons 
  of 
  milk 
  product, 
  had 
  set 
  himself 
  to 
  devise 
  a 
  means 
  to 
  ruin 
  

   the 
  great 
  industry, 
  and 
  incidentally 
  to 
  diffuse 
  tuberculosis 
  in 
  our 
  

   population, 
  could 
  he 
  have 
  hit 
  upon 
  one 
  better 
  calculated 
  to 
  effect 
  

   his 
  purpose? 
  

  

  Last 
  winter 
  I 
  drew 
  a 
  bill 
  to 
  correct 
  the 
  evil 
  and 
  had 
  it 
  intro- 
  

   duced 
  into 
  the 
  Senate, 
  but 
  the 
  cattle-dealers 
  and 
  commission 
  men 
  

   of 
  Buffalo 
  were 
  powerful 
  enough 
  to 
  prevent 
  a 
  favorable 
  report. 
  

   The 
  bill 
  was 
  left 
  in 
  committee. 
  It 
  remains 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  whether 
  

   the 
  medical 
  men, 
  sanitarians, 
  and 
  philanthropists 
  of 
  New 
  York; 
  

   whether 
  the 
  outraged 
  live-stock 
  owners; 
  whether 
  the 
  political 
  

   economists 
  of 
  the 
  commonwealth, 
  will 
  demand 
  that 
  this 
  great 
  evil 
  

   sh-all 
  cease. 
  

  

  Certain 
  it 
  is 
  that 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  other 
  States 
  continue 
  to 
  legislate 
  

   tuberculous 
  cows 
  into 
  our 
  herds, 
  and 
  we 
  raise 
  not 
  a 
  finger 
  to 
  pre- 
  

   vent 
  it, 
  all 
  our 
  time 
  and 
  expense 
  directed 
  toward 
  the 
  suppression 
  

   of 
  bovine 
  tuberculosis 
  will 
  be 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  a 
  waste 
  of 
  public 
  money. 
  

   The 
  noxious 
  weed 
  cannot 
  be 
  rooted 
  out 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  we 
  protect 
  it 
  by 
  

  

  3i 
  

  

  