542 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Municipalities have power to establish public abattoirs ; carcasses 

 showing advanced or generalized tuberculosis are condemned. 



Tuberculin is being used extensively, the board of public 

 health supplies it free of cost, and in outlying districts it is pro- 

 posed that the inspectors of stock should apply the test for 

 dairymen and farmers. All cattle entering the colony must be 

 inspected before going into the interior. 



Somewhat similar laws are in force in Southern and Western 

 Australia, as well as in Tasmania and New Zealand. 



UNITED STATES. 



In the United States a strict quarantine is in force against all 

 outside territory, and no bovine is allowed to enter the country 

 without being first tested with tuberculin and passing the test to 

 the satisfaction of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The quarantine law adopted by many of the individual States 

 is for the purpose of controlling the movements of infected 

 cattle within the country. 



Maine. 



Maine was the first of the New England States to adopt the 

 system of placing quarantines on the admission of out-of-State 

 cattle. The law was first enforced in 1892 against Massachusetts, 

 because of the large per cent, of Massachusetts cattle that were 

 found diseased. Later it was placed on all out-of-State territory, 

 except to such as were provided with certificates of tuberculin 

 test. The authorities in Maine test herds only on the voluntary 

 application of the owner, the owner to receive one-half the value, 

 as determined on the basis of health before infection, the limit 

 of compensation being $100 for pedigreed animals and $50 for 

 others. The commission have power to investigate as to the 

 existence of disease, and to condemn and destroy such as show 

 physical evidence of disease. During the year 415 head of cattle 

 were destroyed at an appraisal of $18,122. 



Vermont. 

 Vermont, with its small percentage of diseased animals, has 

 probably been more successful than any other State in its 

 attempts to control tuberculosis. Since Feb. 1, 1897, 60,000 

 cattle have been tested and 2,390 have been found diseased and 

 killed, — a percentage of disease of nearly 4 per cent. In Ver- 

 mont no animals are tested unless the owner allows the entire 

 herd to be tested, and thereafter every animal admitted to the 



