No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 277 



tuberculous, brought into Massachusetts from without the 

 State, 79 were tested and retested at Brighton, and the other 

 39 were tested at other i)laces. Eight in all were found to 

 show no lesions of tuberculosis, and the State had to reim- 

 burse the owners for the value of these animals. These 

 errors were about evenly divided between Brighton and other 

 points. The 561 animals ({uarantined by the local inspectors 

 because they were brought in from without the State are 

 included among tlie 8,442 animals brought to points outside 

 of Brighton market, upon which tests were required. 



It will be seen that since early in November it has been 

 necessary to release 326 animals for lack of funds. Many 

 of these undoubtedly showed marked physical evidence of 

 disease, and some will doubtless have to be taken care of 

 early in 1904 ; others have probably been disposed of by 

 their owners as cheap beef, judging from reports received 

 of animals condemned in slaughter houses recently as too 

 badly infected with tuberculosis to be passed as fit for food 

 by agents of boards of health. 



The second section of the Avork in connection with tuber- 

 culosis includes testing and releasing the cattle at Brighton 

 market every week, outside of animals intended for imme- 

 diate slaughter and calves under six months old ; and also 

 the granting of permits for cattle brought to other points, 

 and testing those upon which satisfactory certificates of test 

 are not received. 



It has been found that the first test on cattle at Brighton 

 does not alwa3^s prove reliable, and any cattle that give an 

 apparent reaction are held over a week and retested with a 

 double' dose of tuberculin. Those reacting a second time 

 are killed, and any that do not react on a retest are released. 

 One hundred and twenty-six reacted the first time ; of these, 

 79 reacted on the second test, and the remaining 47 were 

 released. As the Bri«:hton market was closed for the sale 

 of milch cows and store cattle from Nov. 26, 1902, to July 

 22, 1903, the figures for cattle tested and released or con- 

 demned at Brighton are for animals received there during 

 the last half of the year. Milch cows and store cattle arriv- 

 ing at the yards at Watertowu and Somerville each week are 



