J. M. PARKER. 
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4. Owners of cattle killed shall be compensated by the State. 
5. No person shall be allowed to sell milk without a license, the license to be 
granted by the State, after a satisfactory examination of the dairy and herd by the In¬ 
spector in the district. 
The Inspector’s duties shall embrace the following points : 
1. Ide shall make perodical visits to all the licensed dairies in his distiict. 
2. He shall condemn all tuberculosis cattle, suspicious cases shall be tested with 
tuberculine, and if is thought proper, it shall be sent to the quarantine station of the 
district, to be killed or otherwise as thought fit. The owner may have the privilege 
of keeping suspicious cases, under certain restrictions, on his premises for the purpose 
of turning into beef, if he so desires. After the removal of a tuberculosis animal, the 
Inspector shall see that the box or stall is thoroughly disinfected. 
3. He shall condemn as unfit for dairy purposes all animals in an untrifty or 
sickly condition. 
4. He shall not grant licenses to dairies in a dirty or unsanitary condition. In 
this connection the following points should be noticed: 
j The barns must have a minimum of at least 600 cubic feet for each animal, 
no height of over IS feet to be included. (The cubic capacity to be greater if thought 
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advisable). 
(b) They must have sufficient ventilation, to the reasonable satisfaction of the 
Inspector. 
(c) The barn must be light to the reasonable satisfaction of the Inspector. 
(d) The floor of the barn must be tight so that the urine will not soak through 
and drip into the ground or into the cellar below. 
(e) The manure shall not be allowed to lie in piles against the barn walls, but 
shall be a suitable distance from the farm buildings. 
(f) The water shall be of good quality, and shall not be taken from wells in or 
near the barnyard, nor from wells so situated as to allow the surface drainage to flow 
into it 
Of course, as before remarked, it would be impossible to 
enforce all these requirements throughout the State at short 
notice, but the spirit of the instructions could be carried out, 
and gradual changes made, the Boards of Health and the In¬ 
spectors always keeping in view the ultimate end to be attained. 
In other states the Boards of Health have gone to work in a 
business-like way, in attempting to control tuberculosis in the 
human being, why cannot the State of Massachusetts do the 
same with her dairy cattle ? I believe the time has come when 
something definite should be done. No better time could be 
chosen than the present, and with this end in view, I move 
“That a committee be appointed to report to this Association 
on the matter, so that the Association will be able to communi- 
