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reacted are still at Wonderland, and the owner is anxious to leave 

 the State the 20th of Septenaber, and is desirous of taking his stock 

 away with him, and wishes to stop in Virginia and Ohio on the way 

 home and give exhibitions in those States before returnhig to Okla- 

 homa. If he were a resident of Massachusetts, and had a permanent 

 stable here, I should test his entire lot of hoi*ses, as I have already 

 done, separate those that reacted from those that gave no reaction, 

 and test them once a month until they ceased to react, or until they 

 showed some physical evidence of glanders and I ordered them 

 killed. 



I do not like the idea of ordering the reacting horses that he has 

 here killed, and having to pay for those in which no satisfactory 

 lesions of glandei-s could be detected out of the appropriation of the 

 Cattle Bureau. At the same time, if he could not take them away 

 with him from this State and wanted to sell them, I fear they might 

 go into stables where I would have no control over them, particu- 

 larly as I do not have jurisdiction over the entire State of Massa- 

 chusetts; but if any of these animals were taken into the city of 

 Boston they would be entirely beyond my control, as much as if 

 they were taken to Oklahoma. If, therefore, there is any way for 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry to send an agent here to investigate 

 this outbreak, and determine what is best to be done in the matter, 

 I would like very much to put the whole affair in your hands. 

 Hoping to hear from you at as early a date as possible, I remain 

 Yours respectfully, Austin Peters, 



Chief of Cattle Bureau. 



As a result of this correspondence the Chief of the United 

 States Bureau of Animal Industry arranged to send an agent 

 to test the animals that had reacted at the end of September, 

 with the understanding that any that did not react to his 

 test could be removed by the o^\Tier, and that the State of 

 Massachusetts would kill the reactors. An agent of the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry was sent from 

 Washington the end of September to test the animals about 

 which there was any question. He tested 22, of which 18 

 gave no reaction and were released, and 4 reacted and were 

 killed by the State authority ; lesions were found in 3 ; none 

 could be found in 1 and the Commonwealth paid for it. 

 Tims what at one time seemed to be a rather complicated 

 state of affairs was cleared up. It seems to be another ar- 

 gument in favor of one general law for the State, and a 

 repeal of the special legislation enacted a few years ago to 



