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that the longer we delay the more tuberculous animals we will have to deal 

 with ; also the greater number of animals to be compensated for should State or 

 Nation compensate. Heavier would fall the blow on the farmer or owner of 

 diseased cattle would he have to stand the loss. In England cattle found 

 tuberculous on post-mortem by meat inspectors and condemned, are compensated 

 for by a form of insurance arranged among the farmers and the butchers. I be- 

 lieve in compensation by State or Nation, as this would do away with a great 

 deal of crookedness, it would tend to obtain cooperation of the parties inter- 

 ested, and aid most emphatically in the ultimate elimination of tuberculosis 

 from our dairy herds. It has been my experience in England that men with 

 tuberculous cattle will never welcome the tuberculin test until it pays them to 

 do so. (Dr. T. A. Geddes, Kensington, Md.) 



Theoretically, no; possibly yes, at first. (Health officer Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



If the owner has provided the best sanitary condition for his cattle the ex- 

 pense should be borne by the Government. If he has not provided such condi- 

 tions, then by the owner. (Health officer Baltimore, Md.) 



I think the owner should be reimbursed on a basis of about two-thirds ap- 

 paised value of animals condemned. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



Yes; one-half. (Health officer Bismarck, N. Dak.) 



Fifty per cent of appraised value, together with privilege of selling for im- 

 mediate slaughter under proper inspection, should be given. (Health officer 

 Cleveland, Ohio.) 



Yes; in Ohio the State pays one-half the appraised value. (Health officer 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



Percentage. (Health officer Detroit, Mich.) 



No. (State board of health, Florida.) 



Yes; at as nearly the market price as possible. (Health officer Jackson- 

 ville, Fla.) 



Upon the basis for which they are assessed; two-thirds valuation. (Health 

 officer Kansas City, Mo.) 



Should be compensated to about 50 per cent of a price previously agreed on. 



Owner gets his price for selling a good milk, and he should stand his loss 

 the same as he would if potatoes or any other crop went bad. He would not ask 

 Government to pay for diseased chickens that he could not market. (Health 

 officer Montclair, N. J.) 



Yes. I think for this purpose a stated valuation should be placed on the 

 cow, and 60 per cent of said valuation be paid by State. (Health officer Port- 

 land, Oreg.) 



Full value. (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



Yes. In whole or in part, but every safeguard would be necessary. (Health 

 officer Richmond, Va.) 



No; but New York State pays 80 per cent for cattle with localized lesions, 

 50 per cent for general lesions. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



Yes. Because under our laws a clean herd may be contaminated from out- 

 side sources. I can not answer intelligently this question in the space allotted. 

 (Health officer Seattle, Wash.) 



Yes; by appraisement. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



Such compensation makes a better feeling of owner toward Government, and 

 as the work is for the benefit of the whole people the latter, represented by 

 the Government, should bear at least part of the expense, say one-half fair 

 valuation each in case of apparently good cows, less share by Government in 

 case of very poor. (Health officer Topeka, Kans.) 



Yes. Do not know. (Straus Laboratory, Washington, D. C.) 



Yes. On a basis fixed by disinterested appraisers. (John Thomas, Ednor, 

 Md., president Milk Producers' Association.) 



If compulsory the Government should pay. If voluntary the owner should 

 pay. (Sharon Dairy, District of Columbia.) 



If the tuberculin test is to be enforced at once and in a drastic way without 

 first giving the dairymen a year or more notice of its enforcement, with the 

 privilege of cleaning up their herds as best they can before its application, we 

 think that the owner should be compensated for all cattle condemned, and that 

 the basis of payment should be regulated to a certain extent by the condition 

 of the animal when slaughtered. For instance, if a cow is found to have been 

 only recently infected, or that the lesions are all encysted and calcified, the 

 owner should receive full value for such cow. If, however, the cow i in bad 



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