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this matter. There is an association of veterinarians in this country, 
and politicians and others who would gladly avail themselves of any 
excitement that might be raised by scientific investigations, so let us 
be extremely careful what we say and do upon this matter. 
Mr. Dabney. With regard to this whole matter, we are simply to get 
at the facts, and the question I raised was for information only. It will 
be our business to furnish the legislatures with facts upon which to leg- 
islate. I want to say one more thing about paying for stock. Should 
we not shape our legislation so as to aid the hygiene of our cows'? I 
think if we go on paying for tuberculous stock it will not promote the 
hygiene of the stock, to say nothing of the morals of the community. 
Stock will be kept just as it is now. On the other hand, if a man loses 
the value of his stock he will be moved to take better care of it. We 
know that in tuberculosis it is almost wholly a matter of hygiene. If 
we encourage hygiene among our dairy herds we shall stamp the dis- 
ease out in time. I might suggest here that peox>le will import tuber- 
culous stock into States where they will be paid for it, or even, as they 
did with pleuropneumonia in certain States, infect them. 
Mr. Voorhees. In reference to the attitude of the stations toward 
the tuberculosis question, in aiding or directing legislation, I would 
state that in New Jersey we were forced into it by an unfortunate acci- 
dent, perhaps, but inasmuch as we are in, we have taken it up with the 
idea of guiding legislation with reference to the extent of the disease 
and the reliability of the tuberculin test, whether animals that are dis- 
eased in a slight degree are liable to communicate the disease. We 
have but a small appropriation, and we have laid down the following 
plan, which is now being carried out: We have employed a biologist 
and a veterinarian. Every animal is examined by both the veterinarian 
and the biologist with the tuberculin test. Animals that are mani- 
festly badly diseased are destroyed. Those not badly diseased are 
isolated and treated further, and those animals which we have killed 
in herds throughout the State we have not paid for because we have 
found that wherever farmers have diseased animals, so diseased as to 
show it, they are glad enough to let the pay go provided we say noth- 
ing about it. I think that by working along these lines we shall get 
as much valuable information as if we make a spread about it. In the 
work we are doing we have divided the State into three districts. 
One, where the hygienic conditions are manifestly bad, and we are tak- 
ing the statistics of animals under these conditions. Then, animals 
that are high bred but are kept under conditions of food and manage- 
ment not supposed to be the best. The third and last, those which are 
under as good conditions as possibly could be, in reference to food and 
management and hygiene, and we test herds in that section and get 
statistics. In every case when an animal is killed we keep full records of 
temperature and the veterinarian's diagnosis before and after the animal 
is killed, and we have samples, not only of portions of the infected ani- 
