PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
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in the most dangerous place , close to the ground , where the dust 
and dirt accumidate. What wonder if the whole herd or a 
large percentage of them become diseased in a short space of 
time. 
And it is not only in the ventilation. What about the man¬ 
ure heaps, what about the slime and filth so often heaped up in 
the cellar below, what about the water supply? The cattle 
often get their water supply from what is practically little bet¬ 
ter than a cesspool. 
A re these animals living in healthy conditions ? Is it common 
sense to expect them to be strong and healthy , and free from disease. 
To counteract this state of affairs, the Cattle Commissioners 
have been in the habit of taking only the pronounced cases and 
destroying them, and leaving animals that are predisposed to 
disease, animals that are weak constitutionally, not to mention 
those infected animals that they have failed to discover, and 
leaving them right in the midst of infected surroundings. The 
result is what one would naturally expect: little or no progress 
has been made in eradicating the disease, and if no change is 
made in the system at present in use, their work might be con¬ 
tinued indefinitely without any practical result. 
Instead of being in the hands of an independent Board, the 
supervision of the matter should be in the hands of the State 
Board of Plealth. Of course it is not possible for any great 
change to be made at a jump, but it is possible for a system of 
education to be begun at once, always keeping in view the ulti¬ 
mate adoption of a more perfect system of state supervision and 
inspection of Dairy Farms. 
1. The whole matter should he transferred to the State Board of Health. The 
Board of Agriculture shall be expected to co-operate by spreading information on the 
subject among farmers and stock-raisers by means of lectures and pamphlets, as has 
been done in Pennsylvania and other states. 
2. The State should be divided into districts. Each district to be in the charge 
of a competent veterinary surgeon as Inspector, who shall be responsible only to the 
Chief State Inspector. 
3. One or more quarantine stations shall be established in each district, so that 
suspicious cases, or cases to be kept in quarantine may be sent there to be kept or 
killed, as is thought fit. 
