SANITARY LEGISLATION. 
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wise in those cases where a number of badly affected animals 
have existed to take the precaution of applying additional 
tests some months after the hist. All this involves care, the 
expenditure of a certain amount of money, and the occasional 
loss of an animal. But the animal already suffering from an 
infectious and highly fatal disease cannot be considered to 
possess any high value. The inconvenience and expense at¬ 
tending such precautions are small in comparison with the 
loss and risk involved in allowing the disease to run its natural 
course in the herd, and the sale of dangerous products for 
human consumption. 
SANITARY LEGISLATION. 
From the American Agriculturist we extract a concise 
apercu of the legislation existing against tuberculosis in a few 
States: 
Maine. —A commission has charge of all animal diseases, 
being allowed $5,000 for all purposes. New laws allow peri-, 
odically one quarter of value upon the basis of health before 
infection. Maine claims to be entirely free from tuberculous 
cattle, having quarantined against the disease for several 
years, but glanders is frequent and is spread by Western 
horses. 
New Hampshire. —The cattle commission (composed of 
the secretary of agriculture, master of State grange and 
State board of health) has full power to investigate and de¬ 
stroy animals, and is authorized to pay one-half the value 
computed for the animal in a healthy state (if it has been 
three months within the State), and to spend not more than 
$10,000 in one year. The law does not contain any provision 
relative to tuberculin. 
Vermont. —The legislature of last year passed a law 
which had no limit whatever as to the amount which should 
be expended. It gives one-half of a disinterested appraisal 
(not to exceed a total value of $40) to the owner of the ani¬ 
mal killed in case it is found to be affected with disease, and 
