xVo. l.J KEPOKT OF CATTLE BUKEAU. 241 



Amount brought forward, . . $1,693 27 



From appropriation for the general work 

 of the Bureau, to bo applied towards 

 the payment of unsettled accounts for 



the year 1905, 2,800 88 



Total unexpended, as above, . . $-4, 494: 15 



From sales of hides and carcasses of condemned animals, 

 sales of ear tao-s, testino; cattle at Brio-hton for non- 

 resident owners, etc., there has been received and paid 

 into the State treasury $3,233 67 



Under chapter 220, Acts of 1903, twenty -four stamps for 

 the use of inspectors of meats and provisions have 

 been furnished to the boards of health of twenty-two 

 different towns. 



As the books are brought up only to December 16, it will 

 be seen that there is a balance on hand of $2,800.88, left 

 from the appropriation for the general work of the Cattle 

 Bureau ; but w^hen the claims for cattle killed and various 

 bills are brought in the first of the year this balance will be 

 wiped out, and there wdll again be a deficiency to be pro- 

 vided for by the incoming Legislature. 



The deficiency is again caused by not having sufficient 

 money to carry out the law in paying owners for cattle killed 

 as tuberculous. The 1st of October each year the inspectors 

 of animals receive orders to make an inspection of the neat 

 cattle and other farm animals in their respective cities and 

 towns, together with the premises upon which neat cattle 

 are kept, and to report upon the same in books provided for 

 this purpose. The order requires them to complete the in- 

 spection by November 15, but some of the inspectors do not 

 finish until two or three weeks later ; and it is towards the 

 end of this inspection, when quarantines upon cattle suspected 

 of being tuberculous are being sent in rapidly, that the 

 alternative presents itself of either having these animals 

 destroyed by the State authority, or " released for lack of 

 funds." In either case the Chief of the Cattle Bureau is the 

 subject for criticism. If he releases diseased animals, he is 

 found fault with for not having them killed, especially as 

 many of them are milch cows, the product of which may be 



