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a great deal of pain and suffering and loss in weight. I hav6 

 seen animals lose 300 pounds in 48 hours from suffering, and 

 they could not stand on their feet. I went into a pen a short time 

 ago where there was a hog lying down, affected with the disease. 

 I gave it a push and it attempted to rise, but the pain was so 

 great it turned over on its back and lay there squealing. When 

 forced further to move it walked on its flexed joints without 

 touching its feet to the ground. Most of the sore feet and sore 

 mouths get well without any treatment in from ten days to two 

 weeks and the owner says, '*What is the use of killing these ani- 

 mals ? They are all well. They are eating and coming back to 

 their milk. If you had come when they were shedding skin from 

 their tongues and lips and drooling and could not stand up, it 

 would be different, but now they are well, and what is the use 

 of killing them?" People talk that way sometimes. True, some 

 of the animals would go through all right, and possibly most of 

 them would come back to their milk, if not right away, when 

 the next calf is born. But there would be so many of them per- 

 manently injured it would make it a very expensive undertak- 

 ing. This was demonstrated in Massachusetts during the out- 

 break in 1902. The disease started there in August, 1902. The 

 disease was very slow in spreading, and was not recognized un- 

 til in November. We were on the job by December i. My first 

 mission was to inspect a herd outside of Boston that had passed 

 through the disease several weeks before, and the owner was 

 very anxious it should be spared. The owner stated it was a val- 

 uable herd, that it had gone through the disease back in October 

 and the animals were all eating and coming back to their milk 

 and he did not want them killed if it could be avoided. I went 

 out to the herd, and I did not see anything to warrant killing it. 

 I found a few old scars thoroughly healed scattered in the 

 mouths of a couple of the animals, and a lump as big as a mar- 

 ble in one cow's udder. Finally it was decided to remove the 

 animals from the barn, disinfect it, and after spraying and a 

 foot bath return the cattle to their quarters. This was very sat- 

 isfactory to the owner. After about five weeks he again called 

 at the office and requested that a reinspection be made. He 



