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bear a share of it. Briefly, the Federal law provides that 

 the Secretary of Agriculture may reimburse partly owners 

 of animals destroyed on account of tuberculosis in co-opera- 

 tion with states, counties, and municipalities. The bases 

 upon which Federal indemnities are paid are : 



1. No payment shall exceed one-third of the differ- 

 ence between the appraised value of such animal and the 

 salvage value. 



2. No payment shall exceed the amount paid or to be 

 paid by the State, county, or municipality. 



3. In no case shall any payment be more than $25 for 

 any grade animal or more than $50 for any pure-bred ani- 

 mal. 



4. No payment shall be made unless the owner has 

 complied with all lawful quarantine regulations. 



Legislation regarding indemnities for tuberculous cat- 

 tle varies somewhat in different States and, for detailed 

 and current information on the subject, the reader is re- 

 ferred to his State live-stock sanitary officials or to the 

 inspector in charge representing the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry in co-operative tuberculosis-eradication work. The 

 names and addresses of these officials may be obtained by 

 addressing the Bureau of Animal Industry U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



How the Work of Eradciation is Divided Between State and 

 Government Officials and Others. 



Tuberculosis eradication is a co-operative work of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, the live-stock sanitary officials of the various States, 

 and individual cattle owners. The bureau and the State 

 officials send veterinary inspectors to apply tuberculin tests 

 to the herds of those owners who sign a co-operative agree- 

 ment, which places their herds jointly under supervision for 

 the control and eradication of the disease. 



