334 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



Above all, they must be prevented from going to houses or fields 

 where animals are kept, and the scraps from their tables must on 

 no account be fed to animals. Their expectorations and other 

 secretions must be destroyed by fire, or by some potent chemical 

 disinfectant. . . . 



2. All consumptive domestic animals should be promptly killed, 

 and cremated or otherwise thoroughly disinfected. 



3. There must be a thorough disinfection of all places where 

 the infected man or animal has been ; also of the clothing and ex- 

 cretions of such individual. 



4. There must be an expert inspection of all meat animals 

 before killing and after (during skinning and dressing) , and there 

 must be a disinfection of every condemned carcass, etc. 



There are many more restrictions that could be enumer- 

 ated, but the length of this paper will preclude me from going 

 further. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted 

 at the meeting of the State Boards at Springfield, 111. : — 



Whereas, It is the expressed opinion of leading scientists that 

 actinomycosis is a contagious disease, capable of communication 

 from one animal to another and from animals to mankind, — 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that animals 

 affected with this disease should be destroyed, and that the 

 carcasses thereof should not be used for human food. 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that tubercu- 

 losis in cattle is a dangerously contagious and infectious disease, 

 destructive to human life when the milk or meat of animals so 

 affected are used for human food. 



Resolved, That towns, villages and cities should pass an ordi- 

 nance requiring all persons who exercise the calling of dairymen, 

 and who keep cows for the purpose of selling their milk, or who 

 shall ship milk into such town, village or city, before they are 

 allowed to sell or in any way dispose of such milk, to procure a 

 certificate from a competent veterinarian, to be designated by such 

 corporation, stating that the cows in such dairy, and from which 

 such milk is drawn, are free from said disease ; and that such 

 certificate should be renewed semi-annually under such penalties as 

 may be fixed by such corporations. 



Resolved, That the legislatures of the different States should 

 pass laws requiring all persons who keep cows and milk the same, 

 and sell such milk to cheese and butter factories, should procure 

 certificates from some competent veterinarian, designated by the 

 live-stock sanitary commission of that State, or other proper 



