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brought here, the railroad company is obliged to run the 

 cars containing them on side tracks directly to the abattoirs. 

 As cattle from the quarantined districts are sometimes 

 brought to the Brighton abattoir during the summer months, 

 no one is allowed to drive any neat cattle upon the abattoir 

 premises unless they are intended for immediate slaughter. 



Early in September a man in Wellesley drove 5 cows, 

 which he was taking from Brighton to AVellesley, tlirough 

 the abattoir grounds, with the intention of shipping them 

 later to Hancock, N. H. The main road was being repaired, 

 and in order to get them on another road he used the abat- 

 toir grounds as a short cut. These cattle were therefore 

 quarantined upon the premises of the Wellesley man for 

 two weeks, in order to be sure that there was no danger of 

 their having Texas fever. Nineteen cows and a bull on the 

 same premises were also quarantined for the same length of 

 time, in order to be sure that no animals were moved on or 

 off the premises. It was so late in the season that there was 

 not much danger from these cattle. If they had picked up 

 young ticks and become infected with Texas fever, -it would 

 have been so late in the autumn, by the time any young 

 ticks could have developed into adults and dropped off and 

 laid eggs, that frosty weather would have arrived before the 

 eggs could have hatched ; and therefore there was no danger 

 of any young ticks spreading the disease to the cattle with 

 which the 5 cows that had been exposed were kept. 



Two weeks later, September 21, 10 head of interstate 

 cattle, which w^ere being driven from the 3ards of the New 

 England Dressed Meat and Wool Com})any, in Somerville, 

 to the Brighton market, were driven onto the grounds of 

 the Brighton Abattoir Company, because of the employee 

 who was driving them not understanding the law, although 

 posters arc put up every spring on the premises of this 

 company, forbidding persons driving any cattle through 

 them. These cattle were sent back to the New England 

 Dressed Meat and Wool Company's yards and held in quar- 

 antine for two wrecks. At the end of that time, as they 

 were healthy, they were tested with tuberculin and released, 

 and allowed to be sold at Bris^hton October 5. While there 



