TUBERCULOSIS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
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opinion had been given the Senate recalled the bill, elimi¬ 
nated the objectionable clauses, and passed to be engrossed a 
new bill, which received the Governor’s signature. The bill 
as it was finally adopted by the legislature amends the old 
bill of last year, so that inspectors shall examine sheep and 
swine as well as cattle. It shall also be their duty to inspect 
barns and stables when directed to do so by the Commis¬ 
sioners. 
Section 27 of the old law is amended so that when an 
animal is under quarantine over ten days the expense of such 
quarantine shall be paid by the Commonwealth. Section 45 
is amended so that instead of half value owners shall have 
full value for animals condemned as tuberculous, the value 
not to exceed $60 for each animal. 
Section 13, of Chap. 496, of 1895, provides that the sum 
expended under the act shall not exceed $100,000. 
Section 14 provides that the use of tuberculin shall be 
restricted to cattle brought into the Commonwealth from 
without its lynits, and upon any animal or animals, upon 
consent in writing of the owner, and upon any animal con¬ 
demned as tuberculous upon physical examination by a com¬ 
petent veterinarian. 
It will be seen that this act gives the owner full compen¬ 
sation. The practical working of the act being that the 
State buys cattle that react to the test, paying the owner 
full valuation for them; the cattle then come into the pos¬ 
session of the State when they are killed and the post mor¬ 
tem examination made. 
It will be noticed that the principal difference from last 
year is that the compulsory use of tuberculin is restricted, 
and the farmers get full value, instead of half value, for ani¬ 
mals destroyed on suspicion, before they are proved to be 
diseased by post mortem examination. 
Farmers in Massachusetts, as a rule, are not opposed in 
principle to the inspection of their herds, they are not op¬ 
posed to the adoption of measures looking to the eradicating 
of disease; but they are opposed to the sensational, alarming 
and exaggerated headlines in newspapers (see Boston Herald ) 
