514 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



...If, then, the tuberculin test be required for all cattle entering 

 the State, the herds here once freed may be kept free from 

 disease. ... It is the purpose of the State Board of Health 

 of New York to urge upon the Legislature of 1899 such revision 

 of the existing laws upon this subject as shall ensure certainty in 

 the detecting of the disease, free of cost to the owners of cattle. 



Pennsylvania also believes in quarantine work. In a 

 recent letter Dr. Leonard Pearson, the secretary of the 

 Pennsylvania Live Stock Sanitary Board, writes : — 



I think that our present quarantine law is working satisfactorily 

 and is very advantageous. It gets purchasers into the habit of 

 looking for inspected cows, and it makes it possible for owners 

 of healthy herds to purchase additions without going to the 

 trouble and expense of having one or two cows examined. . . . 



I think it is one of the most important features of any system 

 looking to the suppression of tuberculosis in a State. Moreover, 

 as farmers in the west and in other States learn more of tuber- 

 culosis, more and more infected cattle are being disposed of 

 through the channels of commerce, and the States in which there 

 is no inspection are being exposed to constantly increasing 

 dangers. 



And in the last annual report of the Vermont Board of 

 Agriculture the Cattle Commissioners say : — 



Quarantine regulations are in many respects inconvenient to 

 stock owners and dealers, but they are a necessity in connection 

 with any effort to control disease among our cattle. Evidence of 

 this has come to us in many instances during the past year. We 

 have found that cattle buyers from States where no quarantine 

 was in force have purchased many suspected animals, at a price a 

 little less than would have been paid if not suspected. While we 

 have endeavored to have all work done on cattle going to States 

 where a quarantine was in force performed with the same care 

 and under the same rules as State work, and have demanded that 

 all animals found diseased be turned over to us for slaughter, we 

 have not felt it to be our duty to try and protect the interests of 

 States that had no protection of their own. 



Some time ago, for the purpose of answering certain prac- 

 tical questions incident to the routine work of the Board, the 

 following letter was sent to the out-of-State veterinarians, 



