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raised his stock upon his own farm, and has possiljly thereby 

 perpetuated the disease through interbreeding and exposure to 

 the contagion, should receive from the State the full value for 

 the same. It is further claimed that this rule works an injus- 

 tice upon farmers living on the border line, who pasture their 

 cattle in the neiiihboring States during the summer. 



As against this, however, it is claimed that, while these per- 

 sons would lose the value of such animals if destroyed within 

 six months after they have returned from such pasturage, inas- 

 much as this State is endeavoring to stamp out the disease 

 from cattle within its limits, and thereby to place in the power 

 of the agricultural class the means of keeping their cattle 

 healthy, if anyone of such persons sees fit to remove his cattle 

 from the State and expose them to possible contagion under 

 circumstances over which the State has no control, he should 

 take the risk of the loss which has resulted from his own acts ; 

 they further assert that, by the adoption of proper quarantine 

 regulations and examination, as now established by this Board, 

 such cattle would upon their return be properly tested and 

 destroyed at the border before entering the State, and thus the 

 farmer would lose such cattle even without a limit of residence- 

 ship. 



In the matter of payment of compensation on a health basis, 

 the State of Nebraska is paying full health value. 



The following States are paying for tuberculous animals a 

 limited health value : Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Vermont, New York and New Jersey. 



In the following States a limit of ownership within the State 

 is required : Three months, Rhode Island, New York, New 

 Hampshire; six months, Massachusetts, Vermont, Nebraska; 

 three years, Maine. 



As bearing on this matter of the payment of compensation, 

 the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, in its Bulletin 

 No. 42, of July, 1894, on Bovine Tuberculosis, sums up the 

 matter as follows : — 



The arguments for and against the indemnity system may be 

 summed up briefly as follows : — 



1 . The indemnity system encourages the disclosure of the exist- 

 ence of disease and favors its more complete eradication, while the 



