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marketed, and I might state are meeting with splendid success. Already many of 

 the milkmen have fallen in line, and have put many modern improvements in the 

 dairies and are producing a high class article. The city of Vancouver follows the 

 same system as that of the Government in grading the dairies. In the other cities 

 throughout the Province, the inspectors take a sample of the milk from the wagon 

 of each dairyman supplying milk to the cities at intervals of from one month to 

 three months. The sample is tested and the results published in the paper. You 

 can readily see the result of this. The milkman who is supplying milk low in 

 butter fat, or who is supplying milk from untested cattle, loses his trade, and the man 

 who is up-to-date, has his herd tested, and the butter fat content of the milk rea- 

 sonably high, gets the patronage." 



NOVA SCOTIA. 



Regrets to report that there are no laws or regulations as' yet. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 

 No laws or regulations as yet, but the matter is now under consideration. 



MANITOBA. 



JSTot heard from. 



ALBERTA. 



No laws or regulations as yet, but the Provincial Board of Health are drawing 

 some up. 



LOUISIANA'S INTERESTING EXPERIENCE. 



Louisiana State has one of the most complete sanitary codes of any of the 

 States of the Union. Practically every matter that could possibly affect the health 

 of human beings is dealt with and safeguarded, and the laws in this connection 

 fill a volume of nearly 300 pages. 



The experience of the State in combating tuberculosis among cattle is especi- 

 ally interesting, inasmuch as it is 1 different from any other State. A few years ago, 

 they adopted the compulsory tuberculin test, with a provision that all animals 

 reacting should be slaughtered or segregated according to the Bang method of 

 treatment. They went so far as to empower municipalities which found it imprac- 

 ticable or too expensive to carry out the provisions enforcing the isolation of react- 

 ing cows, to establish municipal farms for this 1 purpose. At these farms, provided 

 they exhibited no physical evidence of the disease, the animals could be kept for 

 breeding purposes, and a pasteurizing plant installed to pasteurize the 

 milk. The farm was to be placed under the management of a veterinarian versed 

 in the Bang method of eliminating tuberculosis, and the proceeds were to be divided 

 between the owners and the municipality. In January, 1909, however, this regula- 

 tion was repealed, and in its place a system inaugurated which works out to elim- 

 inate only the cattle showing clinical or physical evidence of tuberculosis. The 

 clauses substituted for this purpose read as follows: "Section 14: No cow shall be 

 used in any dairy or dairy farm which is known to be suffering from tuberculosis, 

 splenic fever, anthrax or any local or general disease which is liable to render the 

 milk from said cow unwholesome, and every person keeping a milch cow for dairy 



