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violating the law, and causing the owner an unjust loss. A law passed 

 by the last General Assembly and approved by the Governor, April 16, 

 1909, provides that the State may grant partial indenmity for cattle 

 condemned on account of tuberculosis, and that the owner may be per- 

 mitted to ship such cattle, under proper restrictions, to market for im- 

 mediate slaughter, under Federal or State inspection. In addition to 

 the amount allowed by the State, the owner gets whatever the cattle 

 bring on the market. As a rule, the owner will take a loss of about 

 one-fourth or one-third of the value of the cattle condemned when they 

 are shipped to market. He has the option of keeping tuberculous cattle 

 in isolation, under the Bang system, for breeding purposes, in which 

 event the State is out nothing for indemnity and the owner is out only 

 the additional expense of keeping such cattle in quarantine. There is 

 now no ground whatever for the objections which have heretofore existed 

 against the tuberculin test, and made it so difficult to get the co-opera- 

 tion of the owners in doing accurate work. 



Heretofore we have had to take advantage of any opportunity that 

 presented itself to test herds. The result was that an undue amount 

 of time and money was lost in traveling over the State. Hereafter we 

 will attempt to group the work in such a way as to reduce the cost of 

 inspection per herd to the minimum. As far as possible, we will group 

 the herds as follows: 



I. Those from which milk or butter is sold in any of the smaller 

 cities of the State. 



II. Those from which cream is sold to any creamery in the State. 



III. Those from which milk is shipped to a milk dealer in either 

 of the large cities — Kansas City, St. Louis, and St. Joseph. 



We will insist on all herd owners in any one neighborhood getting 

 ready at the same time. 



As a beginning of this plan, "Warrensburg, coming under Class I, 

 has passed and put into force, an ordinance requiring, among other 

 things, that its dairy herds be free from tuberculosis. One firm, out of 

 about sixty-five, dealing in milk in the city of St. Louis, is having all 

 the herds from which it purchases milk tested for tuberculosis, and the 

 diseased animals removed therefrom. The work of testing these herds 

 has been completed, with the exception of retesting one herd from which 

 two diseased cows were removed on the last retest. Working under this 

 plan, we are getting at least twice as much done as heretofore. 



In all this work we have endeavored to verify the accuracy of the 

 results of the test by post mortem examinations. Errors are possible 

 in two ways. A cow that is not tuberculosis may be condemned, or one 

 that is tuberculosis may be passed for sound. As far as we can possibly 



