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Resolved, That the New York State Veterinary Medical Society 

 protests against such misappropriation of public funds, against 

 the false show of protection to our herds and to the public health, 

 while both are being sacrificed by the introduction into barns and 

 fields of the cattle of other States which have been rejected by other 

 markets as tuberculous. 



On this same subject, in Bulletin 150, issued by Cornell 

 University Experiment Station, Prof. James Law says: — 



In recent j^ears the rigid supervision of herds in the New 

 England States has driven many infected cattle into New York, 

 to spread tuberculosis in previously healthy herds and to increase 

 it in those that were already affected. 



The exclusion of cattle seeking to enter Pennsylvania or the 

 New England States, which were not accompanied by the certifi- 

 cate that they had successfully stood the tuberculin test, has led 

 to the testing of western cattle at Buffalo and elsewhere, and the 

 detention of such as failed under the test, to be sold too often to 

 the unsuspecting New York stock owner. The tests have often 

 been made by the inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 who have no legal right to interfere with the condemned cattle 

 unless the attempt is made to move them into another State ; and, 

 in the absence of any restriction by the municipal or State health 

 officers, the owner or dealer is at liberty to sell such tuberculous 

 cattle in open market. 



These are hints of the evils that have been precipitated for a 

 length of time upon our New York live stock industry. Day by 

 day our herds are being systematically infected by the intro- 

 duction of the tuberculous offscouring of other States and of our 

 own, and we raise not a finger to stop it. 



The crying need of New York to-day is, first, to block these 

 streams of infection, which are now practically invited into our 

 herds from other Commonwealths ; and, second, to inaugurate a 

 systematic effort to rid our own herds, which are the sources of 

 our dairy and meat products, from this scourge. 



In the report of the New York State Board of Health the 

 Board clearly outlines its position when it says : — 



It would also seem just that the cost of riddiug a herd of 

 tuberculosis should be borne by the State only once, but that, 

 thereafter, the owner should keep it free by admitting no animal 

 without the proof of soundness, which the tuberculin test affords. 



