No. 4.] KEPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 273 



One was at Gloucester last October, where the owner, a 

 Finn, killed a cow that had been quarantined by the local 

 inspector on suspicion of having tuberculosis, before an 

 agent of the Cattle Bureau could see her, dressing the car- 

 cass off for beef and putting it in the beef barrel. In this 

 case the local inspector was also the agent of the Cattle 

 Bureau. When the case came to trial, the court decided to 

 dismiss it, as the man was a foreigner with very little knowl- 

 edge of English, and it did not appear that the defendant un- 

 derstood the nature of the quarantine imposed, and therefore 

 he was given the benefit of the doubt, and was discharged. 



The other case occurred in Quincy, where the owner of 

 the cow quarantined, also a Finn, sold her to a Jewish cow 

 dealer. This case came up in the district court in Quincy 

 December 28, when the owner was fined $10. The evidence 

 showed that the owner told the cow dealer that the cow was 

 in quarantine, but the latter said that it did not amount to 

 anything, that the cow was sick, and a danger to the other 

 cows in the barn, and that he, the cow dealer, would explain 

 it to the doctor and fix it all rioht. The cow dealer was 

 summoned to appear in court Jan. 4, 1907, and was found 

 guilty of removing an animal from quarantine, and also 

 found guilty of removing an animal knowing or having rea- 

 sonable cause to believe that it was aftected with a contagious 

 disease. The defendant was fined $75 on the first complaint 

 and $25 on the second. He appealed, and was put under 

 bonds for trial at the Superior Court in Dedham, later. 



A little work is being done in several herds in the State 

 in immunizing young cattle from tuberculosis by the Von 

 Behring method. A few calves have l)een experimented 

 upon in a large herd in the western part of the State hy the 

 Cattle Bureau ; there are also several cattle owners who are 

 havins: calves inmiunized in herds where tuberculosis has 

 been troublesome during the past few years. As yet it is 

 too early to report results ; but as far as the experiments 

 have been carried, they seem to be successful. 



During the last two or tliree years a monthly report has 

 been sent to the United States Department of Commerce and 

 Labor, giving a list of the receipts of cattle, calves, sheep, 



