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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Cattle not for immediate slaughter have been tested by 

 the agent of the Cattle Bureau at Brighton, and are included 

 in the Brighton report. 



Receipts of Stock at Brighton, from Dec. 15, 190 



Maine cattle, .... 



New Hampshire cattle, . 



New York cattle, .... 



Vermont cattle, .... 



Massachusetts cattle. 



Western cattle, .... 



Sheep, ...... 



Swine, ...... 



Calves, ..... 



Cattle tested, .... 



Cattle released after test, 



Cattle condemned after test, . 



Total cattle in stock barn at Brighton, 



■?, to Dec. 15, 1904. 



8,089 



1,697 



850 



1,271 



15,485 



64,093 



57,725 



12,168 



41,894 



12,651 



12,506 



145 



35,025 



The cattle tested at Brig-hton include those broug-ht to 

 Watertown and Somerville, as well as those unloaded at the 

 Brighton yards. All the milch cows from without the 

 State for the Wednesday market at Brighton arrive Tuesday 

 morning, and are taken to the large stock barn at Brighton 

 and tested with tuberculin by the agent of the Cattle Bureau 

 in charge of the stations, in time to be read}^ to be sold 

 Wednesday morning ; besides the cows, bulls for stock 

 purposes and working oxen are also tested. 



The total number of cattle in the stock barn includes the 

 cows, bulls and working oxen brought there from without 

 the State, and also the cattle from various parts of Massa- 

 chusetts, some of them being milch cows and others cheap 

 beef, as well as cattle sold for beef there on market day 

 brought from adjoining States by the cattle dealers with 

 their cows. 



If the milch cows belonging in Massachusetts and offered 

 for sale at the Brighton market could be tested each week, 

 as well as cattle from without the State, it would be a bene- 

 fit, as only healthy animals could then be bought to go to 

 the milkmen's herds in the eastern part of the Common- 

 wealth to take the places of their discarded stock ; but, as 

 reacting cattle would have to be paid for by the State if 



