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as seems to be required for the general good. The 
animal infected with anthrax has no property val- 
ue, no matter how very valuable it might have been 
previous to infection, for the dangerous germ is so 
intimately associated with the tissues as to render 
them dangerous even after they have been cured 
by various processes, such as in the tanning of 
hides. Since there is no property value there is 
no moral, as well as no legal, obligation on the 
part of the community to pay for such animals 
when destroyed. 
An animal infected with tuberculosis may be 
considered in a very different light. Here, too, 
the bacillus is a nuisance per se, and the animal 
is a nuisance in esse. However, the animal may 
have still considerable value. Her milk may be 
sterilized and used for food for other animals; or 
it may be used in certain manufacturing enter- 
prises. If killed, not infrequently the entire car- 
cass can be used for ordinary purposes, with very 
slight exceptions. The animal may be very valu- 
able for breeding purposes, begetting healthy 
stock of a strain showing many generations of 
careful selection in breeding. The destruction of 
this animal may be a serious detriment to the ani- 
mal industry. Since the disease cannot be sepa- 
rated from the animal, according to present knowl- 
edge, and it will eventually prove fatal, and its 
presence creates a constant danger to other ani- 
mals, including man, the right of the state to take 
the animal and destroy it should not be legally 
doubted. On the other hand, the taking of such 
animals without compensation begets a feeling of 
injustice in the minds of the property owners thus 
