No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 437 



Paid for expenses of agents, $940 20 



Paid for salaries of clerks and stenographers, . 2,108 50 

 Paid for postage, stationery, printing and other 



office expenses 990 36 



Paid expenses of laboratory and experimental 



work, ........ 



Paid expenses of quarantine stations, 



Paid expenses of glanders, killing and burial. 



Paid for tuberculin and implements, 



Total payments, ..... 



There has ])een received during the year from sales of 

 hides and carcasses of condemned cattle, and paid to the 

 State Treasurer, $771.57. 



It is estimated that claims on cattle that have not been 

 settled and bills coming due January 1 amount to in the 

 neighborhood of $12,000, making the total expenses of the 

 year somewhat over one-half of the sum appropriated. 



Tuberculosis. 

 It will be seen from the above financial statement that the 

 principal expenses incurred by the Board are in connection 

 with the control of bovine tuberculosis. This work may be 

 classified under the following heads : — 



1. The supervision of the traffic in live cattle brought 

 into the State. 



2. A general inspection, the examination of cattle quar- 

 antined as diseased by the local inspectors in the various 

 cities and towns, and the payment for those found to be 

 infected with tuberculosis, 



3. Testing entire herds for the purpose of permanently 

 eradicating tuberculosis from the premises. 



Under the first head are the cattle brought into the State 

 through the quarantine yards at Watertown, Brighton 

 and Somerville, and those brought in on permits to other 

 points. 



The first step necessary for continuing the control of the 

 cattle business was to readopt the order of the previous 

 Board ; therefore, at a meeting of the Board of Cattle Com- 

 missioners, held Jime 26, the following order was adopted : — 



