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few State Governments have granted compensation. Compulsory tuberculin test- 

 ing has also been exacted as a condition of supplying milk to the following cities: 

 Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Cloud, Alexandria, Duluth, Mankato, Litchfield, Will- 

 man, Albert Lea, Winona, and Montclair, N.J., the latter place being now the scene 

 of an elaborate legal and scientific test case on the question. 



In Canada, about half a dozen towns and cities also demand the tuberculin 

 test. In Manitoba an amendment was passed in 1902 giving towns and cities the 

 right to insist on the tuberculin test, and Portage la Prairie, Stonewall and Nee- 

 pawa have taken advantage of it. According to figures on file at the Health of 

 Animals Branch at Ottawa, of 444 tests made at Portage since 1904, only 7 re- 

 acted and 3 were found suspicious; of 291 tests made at Neepawa since January, 

 1908, 36 reacted; of 47 tested at Stonewall, 4 reacted and one was suspicious. In 



Damp, dark stables Hke this develop tuberculous cattle. 



addition, of 772 tested at Calgary, 44 reacted, while at Moncton, KB., of 1,480 

 tested since 1905, only 22 reacted and 10 were suspicious. 



In Ontario, practically nothing has been done in recent years. 



CALL FOR PREVENTIVE MEASURES WHICH WILL PREVENT. 



With these facts and conditions staring us in the face, it is 1 clear that some- 

 thing morn should be done in this Province. What lines promise most effective 

 results? ft IP, of course, to be remembered that this work at present comes under 

 the jurisdiction of the Health of Animals Branch at Ottawa, and it is' encouraging 

 to know that Dr. Rutherford, head of that Branch, is Chairman of an International 

 Committee of experts who are now deliberating on the subject and who are ex- 

 pected to evolve a practical plan. In the meantime, we are of opinion that the 



