No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 201 



General Suggestions. 



22. If for any reason you desire to know the name and the 

 address of the inspector for any town within this Commonwealth 

 from which animals may have been removed to your district, you 

 can obtain the same by application to this office. 



23. Notify this Board of your action promptly. 



24. Notify this office of the number of blank certificates that 

 you will possibly require. 



Levi Stockbridge, President, 



Charles P. Lyman, F. R. C.V. S., Secretary, 



M. O'CONNELL, D.V. S., 



Board of Cattle Commissioners. 



Among the earlier attempts made by the Commission to 

 get at the probable existence of tuberculosis among cattle, 

 was an order directing that all herds should be examined as 

 often as once in every three months ; and that, each time, 

 the office should be notified of their actual condition, upon 

 blanks which were furnished for the purpose. After trial 

 of this order, for something more than a year, the Commis- 

 sioners became convinced that the midsummer examinations 

 were practically useless, because of the extreme difficulty of 

 reaching anything like the total number of animals at this 

 time ; and that the midwinter examination would not repay 

 its cost ; provided a thorough examination of all of the ani- 

 mals could be made in the fall as soon as they had been 

 brought into the barns, and again in the spring, just before 

 they were turned out to pasture. Therefore in September 

 the following order was made, and the inspectors notified of 

 the change : — 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



BoAHD OF Cattle Commissioners, 



Secretary's Office, 50 Village Street, 



Boston, September, 1893. 



Dear Sir : — I beg to call your attention to the following vote 

 recently passed by the Board of Cattle Commissiomers, and to ask 

 that the inspections therein called for are properly, carefully and 

 thoroughly made ; and that you report the results of your exami- 

 nations to this office, upon the proper blanks, within as short a time 

 as possible after the completion of the work. 



At a meeting of the Board of Cattle Commissioners held Sept. 

 27, 1893, it was voted that "hereafter inspectors be ordered to 

 make two thorough examinations of cattle in each year : one 



