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killed, the present ai)pr(Ji)iiati<)n.s made for this work would 

 prove insufficient to meet the extra expense entailed. 



Any one going to Brighton for cattle now can purchase 

 tested animals, each with a tag in its ear, with the words 

 "tested at Brighton" on one side and a num])er on the 

 other. This system of numbering makes it possible at any 

 time to trace out a cow from an adjoining State sold at 

 Brighton. If this system could be carried out for all cattle 

 sold at Brighton, it would insure a healthy supply of cows 

 for the milk producer, and also make it possible to learn 

 where the infected herds in remote portions of the State 

 were kept, with a view to cleanino- them up in time, and 

 thus still further reducing the amount of bovine tuberculosis 

 in the Commonwealth ; but in order to carry out such a 

 plan, more money would be required than is at present 

 available. 



The benefit of having the stock sold at Brighton tested is 

 becoming apparent, from the fact that in the towns sur- 

 rounding Boston, where the milkmen are in the habit of 

 buying their fresh cows at Brighton, very few animals are 

 quarantined as tuberculous ; the old, diseased cattle have 

 been killed off, and healthy animals have replaced them. 

 There has not been a cow quarantined as tuberculous in 

 Dedham, Needham, Wellesley or Westwood during the 

 recent annual inspection, and only one each in Norwood and 

 Dover and but a few in Natick, where the farmers buy their 

 fresh cows at Brighton chiefly from among those that have 

 been tested. 



A few years ago the Lynn board of health required that 

 all the cows supplying that city with milk should be tested, 

 and that milk could not be sold there from any that reacted ; 

 a number were killed, and new purchases have been largely 

 made from tested cows bouijht at Brig-hton or coming: from 

 outside the State. The results are a})parcnt, when it is 

 noted that very few animals in that section are quarantined 

 as tuberculous. 



On the other hand, there are localities where the farmers 

 trade around among themselves, or smuggle cows across the 

 line from southern New Hampshire without the test, that are 



