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In case ..e adopts the former method the herd composed of dis- 
eased and healthy cattle should be placed in quarantine under 
the supervision of sanitary authorities, and no sales should be 
permitted from the herd excepting for immediate slaughter. The 
alternative method will compel him to dispose of his tuberculous 
animals in the case he refuses to pasteurize the milk. The 
suppression of tuberculosis could be greatly facilitated and the 
cooperation of many of the herd owners could be gained by a 
provision by which a certain percentage of indemnity could at 
least for a term of years be paid for the condemned animals. 
The scale for such an indemnity should be arranged in accord- 
ance with the final disposition of the carcass under competent 
inspection. 
Another method of eradication should receive serious con- 
sideration as being of value in some localities. ‘This is known 
as the Manchester system, which is either the Ostertag or Bang 
system applied to localized areas or even individual farms, from 
which centers the work progresses to surrounding or neighboring 
districts and farms. 
Inasmuch as the animals affected with clinical tuberculosis 
are the greatest sources of danger in the dissemination of the 
disease, compulsory reporting of such cases should be inaugurated 
by the state, as is now done in many places in the control of 
human tuberculosis. Mandatory reporting of these cases and 
their prompt slaughter are very essential, as only by the elim- 
ination of these exceptionally dangerous cases can it be hoped 
to take up all the other details by which a successful control 
of bovine tuberculosis may be accomplished. 
In conclusion your Committee, having regard to the disposition 
of pure bred cattle, or valuable animals kept for either breed- 
ing or dairy purposes, would strongly recommend a system re- 
quiring the removal of all clinical tuberculous animals from 
the herd, the segregation of all calves from the remaining cows 
in order to establish a new, clean herd, the use of tuberculin 
tested nurse cows or pasteurized milk for these calves, and the 
periodic application of tuberculin to this newly established herd, 
as the only thoroughly reliable one. 
(Signed) W. C. Epwarps, Chairman. 
Joun R. Mouter. 
FREDERICK TORRANCE. 
