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BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Pub. Doc. 



State Board of Agriculture, to owners of animals slaughtered 

 previous to April 11 of the current year, for the i)urpose of 

 exterminating the foot and mouth disease, a sum equal to 

 the ditference between the amount paid by the United States 

 and the value of such cattle as a})praised by the agents of 

 the United States, $40,000. 



From this appropriation there have been paid 12(i claims 

 for animals, as folloAvs : — 



$118,006 28 



3,000 00 



815 00 



260 00 



175 00 



2,617 00 



2,178 00 



411 00 



21 00 



2,778 animals. Total appraisal, 

 Seventy per cent paid by the United States, 



Difference, thirty per cent, paid by State, 



Balance of appropriation unexpended, 



$127,483 28 

 89,238 30 



$38,244 98 

 $1,755 02 



Under the provisions of chapter 220, Acts of 1903, 76 

 stamps have been furnished to 5(i towns in the State, for 

 branding the meat of slaughtered animals intended for food. 



There has been received during the year, from various 

 sources, — sale of hides and carcasses of condemned animals, 

 sale of ear tags, tuberculin tests for cattle brought to Brighton 

 by non-resident oAvners, etc., — the sum of $1,928.37, which 

 has been paid to the State Treasm-eri 



The Legislatiu-e of 1903 amended section 31 of chai)ter 

 90 of the Revised Laws so as to read as follows : — 



Section 31. Tiiberciilia as a diagnostic agent for the detection 

 of tuberculosis in domestic animals shall be used only upon cattle 

 brought into the Commonwealth and upon cattle at Brighton, 

 Watertown and Somerville ; but it may be used as such diagnostic 

 agent on any animal in any other part of the Commonwealtli, with 

 the consent in writing of the owner or person in possession thereof, 

 and upon animals which have been condemned as tuberculous upon 

 physical examination by a competent veterinary surgeon. Such 



