SANITARY LEGISLATION. 
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stables, and showing how sanitary conditions should be made 
right; nothing said in law or rules to date about tuberculin. 
Maryland. —Live stock sanitary board ; State pays full 
value of appraisal in diseased condition for cattle killed for 
exotic diseases (Texas fever, etc.). Nothing done with tu¬ 
berculosis, stock owners oppose use of tuberculin even if guar¬ 
anteed full value, and board is unanimous that Federal Gov¬ 
ernment must assist the States. 
Delaware. —No legislation. 
Ohio. —No legislation. 
IN OTHER SECTIONS. 
The Far Western States each have a State veterinarian 
or commission, that has general charge of all animal diseases, 
usually with full power to slaughter any animals with infec¬ 
tious or contagious disease. This would be held to cover 
tuberculosis if it was found, but very little evidence of the 
disease has been found, except in a few dairies near cities. 
Portland, Oregon, has paid $50,000 during the past few years 
for diseased stock killed, including cows; the law allows 
owner full value and cost of killing; tuberculin test used. 
! Colorado allows $1,000 a year for investigating for bovine tu¬ 
berculosis ; last year 20 suspected herds tested, but only three 
distinct cases found ; otherwise no special mention of the dis¬ 
ease, though existing law gives State veterinarian ample 
power. California vets tried to secure tuberculosis inspec¬ 
tion law in last legislature, but were overwhelmingly defeated. 
Delaware. —No legislation. An attempt to pass a tuber¬ 
culosis act in 1893 failed by a vote of 391038. It provided for 
a State veterinarian under the cattle commission, whose duty 
would be to inspect cattle, kill the infected “ and demonstrate 
to the satisfaction of the owner that the disease really exists, 
and must in cases of doubt furnish material for disinterested 
scientific examination, and proof of the accuracy or inaccu¬ 
racy of his diagnosis.” Inspections were to be made on re¬ 
quest of State or local boards of health or of two or more 
persons; appraisal not to exceed $40 per head; if diseased, 
• y such appraisal paid by State, y by county, but if not tu- 
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