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as seems to be required for the general good. The 

 animal infected with anthrax has no property val- 

 ue, no matter how very valuable it might liave been 

 previous to infection, for the dangerous germ is so 

 intimately associated with the tissues as to render 

 them dangerous even after they have been cured 

 by various processes, such as in the tanning of 

 hides. Since there is no property value there is 

 no moral, as well as no legal, obligation on the 

 part of the community to pay for such animals 

 when destroyed. 



An animal infected with tuberculosis may be 

 considered in a very different light. Here, too, 

 the bacillus is a nuisance per se, and the animal 

 is a nuisance in esse. However, the animal may 

 have still considerable value. Her milk may be 

 sterilized and used for food for other animals; or 

 it may be used in certain manufacturing enter- 

 prises. If killed, not infrequently the entire car- 

 cass can be used for ordinary purposes, with very 

 slight exceptions. The animal may be very valu- 

 able for breeding purposes, begetting healthy 

 stock of a strain showing many generations of 

 careful selection in breeding. The destruction of 

 this animal may be a serious detriment to the ani- 

 mal industry. Since the disease cannot be sepa- 

 rated from the animal, according to present knowl- 

 edge, and it will eventually prove fatal, and its 

 presence creates a constant danger to other ani- 

 mals, including man, the right of the state to take 

 the animal and destroy it should not be legally 

 doubted. On the other hand, the taking of such 

 animals without compensation begets a feeling of 

 injustice in the minds of the property owners thus 



