436 EOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



tion, because in experience the appraisal was found to give no 

 value to the owner, and simply put the State to unnecessary 

 expense and trouble. 



Those who favor this proposition say, in answer, that the 

 experience of the State in the case of glanders was in connec- 

 tion with an entirely different disease, which quickly proves 

 fatal ; that the animals destroyed had no value because they 

 yield no food product ; that, in so far as it applies to the expe- 

 rience in the past in the case of tuberculosis, that experience 

 was based entirely upon the destruction of animals in the 

 advanced stage of the disease, based upon a physical examina- 

 tion ; and that, when animals are to be destroyed relying upon 

 the tuberculin test, a different class of animals is reached, many 

 of which are to all external appearances sound. 



Third. — The payment of one-half apparent or health value 

 of the animal on a limited basis, disregarding the fact that it is 

 affected loith tuberculosis. 



Fourth. — The payment of the full value of the animal, ascer- 

 tained in the same manner. 



Both of these propositions are supported and opposed in sub- 

 stance by the same class of persons and upon the same arguments, 

 based upon the expediency or non-expediency of paying to the 

 owners a portion or all of what they may have more or less inno- 

 cently invested in the stock destroyed. 



Those who favor this payment on either basis assert that, as 

 a question of expediency, such payment should be made, and 

 that otherwise the law works a great hardship upon the farming 

 and agricultural community without their receiving any com- 

 mensurate benefit. They assert that, while it may not have 

 been a serious hardship to this class to have their animals 

 destroyed as tuberculous, relying only upon a physical examina- 

 tion, with the introduction of tuberculin as a means of deter- 

 mining the existence of this disease the conditions entirely 

 change. 



For the first time, in tuberculin there has been placed in the 

 hands of the State a reliable agent for the detection of this disease. 

 They cite the fact that by the use of this agent very many ani- 

 mals throughout the State are being condemned and destroyed as 

 tuberculous which have every external appearance of being sound 

 and healthy, which have been yielding large quantities of milk. 



