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2. In order to discover these dangerous animals, an 

 efficient service of inspectors is required. The public must be 

 prepared to meet all the cost of adequately inspecting the 

 condition of dairy cattle. 



3. It is essential in the interest of agriculture that com- 

 pensation should not be paid out of the public funds for 

 slaughtered cattle showing advanced or generalised tuberculosis, 

 or tuberculosis of the udder. 



4. The testing of entire herds with tuberculin should be 

 encouraged, and for this purpose the assistance of public 

 money is requisite and desirable. 



5. If tuberculin is to be of value in the suppression of 

 disease it must be employed as a necessary guarantee of 

 heakh, not merely as an aid to diagnosis in cases where 

 disease is suspected. 



6. Public money spent on re- testing, with a view to 

 establishing thoroughly the soundness of herds giving on the 

 first test either no reactions, or only a small percentage of 

 reactions, would be money well spent. 



7. Eeacting animals possessing a market value might 

 under special circumstances be taken over by the community 

 at a price exceeding their market value, but, with this 

 limited exception, compensation out of the public funds does 

 not appear to be justifiable. The special circumstances con- 

 templated are when there are only a few reacting animals, 

 and it is advantageous to secure a number of foci of healthy 

 animals. 



8. Local authorities, by establishing and maintaining clean 

 herds for the supply of public institutions, would provide a 

 valuable means of educating the farmer. 



9. The difficulty at present seems to lie not so much in 

 the lack of public support of a financial nature as in the lack 

 of evidence that the agricultural interest is prepared to turn 

 to good advantage such effective public support as might be 

 offered. 



II. THE PREVENTION OF HUMAN INFECTION FROM MATERIAL 



CONTAINING BOVINE TUBERCLE BACILLI 



The facts detailed in the earlier part of this Chapter show 

 that the eradication of bovine tuberculosis will be at the best 



