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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Stable Tests with Mallein. 



' Two cases died after release, and showed lesions of glanders on post-mortem 

 examination. 

 ^ One negative case developed glanders, and was killed two months later. 



It is believed that glanders could be more rapidly dimin- 

 ished in this Connnonwealth if measures similar to those fol- 

 lowed by the Canadian government could be adopted. In 

 Canada, when glanders appears in a stable, all animals show- 

 ing physical evidence of disease are killed ; all contact ani- 

 mals are tested with mallein ; and all that react but ^ow no 

 physical signs of disease are killed and the owner is paid 

 two-thirds of an animal's value, or if the owner prefers, he 

 can keep the animals, but they are to be retested from time 

 to time, and any that react to the third test are killed, and 

 the owner is paid two-thirds of each animal's value, if it 

 does not develop physical evidence of disease u}) to the time 

 it is destroyed. II' the Massachusetts law could be amended 



