500 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



results therefrom to animals found free from the disease, I hereby request 

 that you subject my herd, consisting of the following animals, to wit, 

 to the tuberculin test, to determine whether or not any of said 

 animals are affected with tuberculosis ; this test to be made at the expense 

 of the Commonwealth. 



And I agree that thereafter I will observe the sanitary regulations pre- 

 scribed by the Board of Cattle Commissioners, and will not introduce into 

 said herd any animals without having them first subjected to the tuberculin 

 test. 



I further certify that I am the true and lawful owner of said animals, 

 that of said animals have been owned within the State 



six months continuously prior to the date hereof. 



Date received, 



Date examined, 



No. examined, 



No. released, 



No. condemned, 



Amount approved for animals destroyed, 



Warrants No. 



Expense, 



Upon receipt of these requests, a member of the commission, 

 or an agent of the Board who is also a duly qualified veter- 

 inarian, visits the premises where the herd is located. Before 

 the test is applied a careful physical examination is made of 

 every animal in the herd, after which they are subjected to the 

 tuberculin test, and animals which are by these means consid- 

 ered suspicious are condemned and destroyed under the pro- 

 visions of the act. 



The first application which was received by the commission 

 for this class of work was on July 15, 1895, from the town of 

 Cummington. Upon this application 26 animals were exam- 

 ined, 10 of which were found to be diseased, were condemned 

 and destroyed ; since which time the commission has received 

 nine additional applications for test in this town. In the early 

 part of this work the applications which were received by the 

 commission, while numerous, were few in comparison to the 

 number received afterwards. Up to December 18 the commis- 

 sion has received 535 such applications. The number received, 

 month by month, has been as follows : — 



