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gious disease, and the owner is forbidden to sell any of the product 

 thereof for food, or if animals have been quarantined, collected 

 or isolated on auy premises other than those of such owner or per- 

 son in possession thereof, the expense of such quarantine shall be 

 paid by the Commonwealth. 



The cattle owners will be notified of this provision of the 

 law, and will also be furnished with the necessary" blanks 

 upon which to make their claims for the expense of quai'an- 

 tine. These claims will probabh' be sufficiently heavy to 

 make it necessary for the Legislature to make a special ap- 

 propriation to meet them, as it is doubtful if enough of the 

 appropriation made for the work of the Cattle Bui-eau of the 

 State Board of Agi-iculture dm-ing 1902 w411 be left to meet 

 all the expenses incurred as the result of the outbreak of 

 foot and mouth disease. 



Besides the losses and expenses already spoken of, it must 

 not be forgotten that the loss to the owners of the animals 

 which have been killed will not end with the killing of the 

 animals, as barns where the disease has existed will have to 

 be disinfected, and will then have to be kept empty for sev- 

 eral weeks before new cattle can be introduced, and none of 

 the forage on these infected premises ought to be removed 

 for some time to come. This means that a number of farm- 

 ers wdll, for the next month or two, be entirely deprived of 

 their chief sources of income. 



AVith the strinofent measures that have been taken for the 

 suppression of the disease, the prospects are that it will soon 

 be eradicated. It is to be hoped that in the course of a few 

 weeks more it will be practically a thing of the past, al- 

 though it may be necessary to keep uj) a sj^stem of inspec- 

 tion in ^ome localities and certain restrictions on the 

 movements of cattle for sometime longer than this. As soon 

 as the disease is eradicated, the Brighton market can be re- 

 opened and the cattle business resume its former conditions. 



At the time of the visit of Dr. Theobald Smith and the 

 Chief of the Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture 

 to the infected herd in Dedham, Xovember 16, Dr. Smith 

 carried some glass pipettes with him. Serum from a vesicle 

 on a cow's udder was drawn into the pipettes, after pricking 



