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that all animals tested be tagged or otherwise individualized so as 

 to enable an intelligent observance of the provisions of the statutes 

 and ordinances to govern such matters. 



CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY IN APPLYING 



TUBERCULIN TEST. 



The act regulating the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, 

 approved March 2, 1895, providing, inter alia, that it shall not be 

 lawful for any person to offer for sale within the District milk taken 

 from any cow known to be suffering from tuberculosis, an examina- 

 tion was made under the auspices of the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 of the Department of Agriculture of all cattle within the District as 

 well as of such cattle in the adjacent States of Maryland and Virginia 

 furnishing milk for consumption in the District whose owners volun- 

 teered to submit their herds for examination. As a condition prec- 

 edent to the making of the test by the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 an understanding was entered into in each instance between the cattle 

 owner and the bureau, by the terms of which the owner engaged him- 

 self as follows: 



1. I will cause all animals which react to the tuberculin test and which 

 also show other marked symptoms of tuberculosis to be slaughtered within 

 a reasonable time under the United States meat-inspection regulations, and I 

 will cause the carcasses of said animals to be disposed of according to the 

 meat-inspection regulations of the Bureau of Animal Industry, based upon the 

 lesions found upon inspection. 



2. I will cause all animals which react to the tuberculin test, but which 

 show no other evidence of tuberculosis, either to be slaughtered and disposed of 

 as herein provided for animals which show also other evidence of tuberculosis, 

 or I will cause such animals to be removed from the herd and portion of the 

 farm upon which the healthy animals of the herd are maintained, and I will 

 cause the diseased animals to be segregated from the healthy animals, and 

 thereafter they shall remain so segregated. 



3. In all cases where the milk from such segregated reacting cows is to be 

 used for any purpose whatever I will cause the said milk to be sterilized. 



4. Segregated reacting bulls may be used for breeding, provided they are 

 held on leash and are not permitted to leave the premises reserved for their 

 use, and provided the healthy cows bred to such bulls are not unduly exposed 

 to infected premises or to other diseased cattle. 



5. I will cause the young from segregated reacting animals to be removed 

 from their mothers at birth, and will not permit the said young to suck their 

 mothers. 



6. Any of my premises contaminated by reacting animals will be submitted 

 by me to a thorough disinfection under the direction or supervision of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry. 



7. All cattle owned by me, both healthy and tuberculous, I will mark, or 

 allow to be marked, in such manner as to enable their identity to be retained, 

 and I will not change the location of or slaughter any tuberculous cattle except 

 after due and timely notification to the Bureau of Animal Industry, stating 

 the exact nature of the change of location, or the exact date, name, and address 

 of the official establishment at which the animal or animals are to be 

 slaughtered. 



8. I will add no cattle to the said herd which have not passed a tuberculin 

 test with the tuberculin prepared by the Bureau of Animal Industry, adminis- 

 tered by a licensed veterinarian of the State, an authorized public agent 

 qualified to perform such test, or by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry: Provided, That I may purchase cattle to be added to my herd if 

 the said cattle are kept effectually separated from the rest of my tuberculin- 

 tested cattle until the same can be tuberculin tested, and I will immediately 

 notify the Bureau of Animal Industry and the local board of health that these 

 cattle are on my premises subject to test. 



