294 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



sion and prevention of contageous diseases among domestic animals are 

 necessary and beneficial and that the state should have a board of Live 

 Stock Commissioners who will wisely use the great discretion with which 

 they are necessarily clothed. They recommend that the present laws on 

 the subject be amended so as to embrace the following principles in re- 

 gard to tuberculosis in cattle: 



1. The appraisal shall be the full market value of the living animal 

 at the time of making the examination. 



2. That the owner shall receive such full appraised value for con- 

 demned animals if they are not found to be tuberculous on post mortem 

 examination, and 75 per cent of such appraised value if they are found 

 to be tuberculous on post mortem examination. 



3. No animal shall be condemned, quarantined or slaughtered as 

 tuberculous without the owner's consent in writing, unless it shall be 

 found to be tuberculous by a physical examination. 



4. No animal shall be condemned or slaughtered on account of tu- 

 berculosis without the owner's consent in writing, after the state appro- 

 priation for making compensation as above is exhausted. 



Progress is change, and yet change is not always progress. It is the 

 part of wisdom to make haste slowly in matters where the most efficient 

 investigators disagree. 



The cattle owner will welcome improvement when it is shown to be 

 improvement. His property, his markets, his health and the health of 

 his family are at stake. To do otherwise would be but to injure himself. 



The utility of a general enforcement of the tuberculin test with the 

 conditions that go with it, has not yet been demonstrated. In fact, such 

 a course has been condemned by New York and Massachusetts, the states 

 of all others that have had most experience in its use. 



And yet there is something in bacteriology, there is something in 

 sanitation. Patient study of first principles has changed the world in a. 

 hundred years. The scourge no longer depopulates cities. The ounce of 

 prevention will preserve the herds on the hills and plains. Let there be 

 light, air, cleanliness, exercise in moderation, wholesome food and 



