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brought iuto the State without a permit from this Board, uutil the 

 owner furnishes the Cattle Commission with satisfactory certifi- 

 cates of a tuberculiu test. Before quarantining any cattle, you 

 should decide upon what cows you are going to quarantine, then 

 send the papers on a number at once, so our agent can see them 

 all on one visit. 



By order, Austin Peters, Chairman, 



L. F. Herrick, Secretary, 



C. A. Dennen, 

 Massachusetts Board of Cattle Commissioners. 



The following table shows the result of the work done by 

 the inspectors in quarantining cattle. These have been ex- 

 amined by agents of the Board, and those that were found to 

 be diseased have been killed, while those showing no evidence 

 of disease were released. 



A few animals were quarantined prior to ordering the gen- 

 eral inspection, between June 1 and October 1, but most of 

 those dealt with were quarantined after the 1st of October. 



The animals which were killed as a result of this inspec- 

 tion were nearly all badly diseased, and were the ones most 

 likely to be a source of danger to the public health and to 

 other cattle. Most of them were condemned on physical 

 examination. 



Included among the number of animals quarantined and 

 released in each place are those where herds were tested at 

 the request of the owner, with the exception of one herd in 

 Newton. These are mentioned again in the table under the 

 head of voluntary request work. 



The commission has instructed its agents this year to lay 

 special stress upon the importance of disinfection wherever 

 cows have been taken. 



