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an excess of diseased subjects. This is suggested by several 

 of the replies from New Hampshire and New York, from 

 which places the drovers bring into this State only such ani- 

 mals as have proved sound, while the suspects and condemned 

 are left to infect other animals in their neighborhood and to 

 contaminate the dairy products ; but the benefits to this State 

 are not confined alone to the rejection of reacting animals. 

 The quality of all animals brought in for dairy purposes is 

 improved. 



On this same subject T. D. Babcock, one of the Cattle 

 Commissioners in Rhode Island, in his report to the State 

 Board of Agriculture of that State, in referring to this 

 matter, says : — 



It is but just to the reliable dealers in this locality to say that 

 they do all in their power to carry out the provisions of the law. 

 . . . That an enforcement of this law has made a marked im- 

 provement in the cattle in this section of the State, every well- 

 informed person is free to admit. 



Massachusetts is the general market for all the New Eng- 

 land States, and the cost of the work is slight compared to 

 the benefits to be derived from a steady prosecution of the 

 work, even if it was to be abandoned by the other New Eng- 

 land States. 



Believing, then, that this or a somewhat similar method 

 is necessary and for the benefit of all concerned, the order 

 quarantining out-of-State cattle, and known as General Order 

 No. 10, was revised ; and finally, on the seventeenth day of 

 October, 1898, the following order was adopted by the com- 

 mission ; — 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Board of Cattle Commissioners, 

 Commonwealth Building, 11 Mt. Vernon Street, 

 Boston, Oct. 17, 1898. 

 To All Whom it may Concern. 



By virtue of the power and authority in us vested by law, and 

 especially under the provisions of chapter 491 of the Acts of the 

 year 1894 and chapter 496 of the Acts of the year 1895, you are 

 hereby notified that tuberculosis, which is a contagious disease 

 and is so recognized under the laws of this Commonwealth, exists 



