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JAMES LAW. 
securing and putting in the field the requisite number of veterinary 
inspectors, who could be intrusted with the delicate work of test¬ 
ing cattle with “tuberculin.” Duties which involve so funda¬ 
mentally an interest so large and so important as our dairy herds, 
should demand that all candidates for the inspectorship should 
pass a thorough examination in the diseases, dietetics and 
cattle, and in the applications and uses of “ tuber¬ 
culin.” No less important is it that they should be certified to 
be of good moral character and unimpeachable integrity. Much 
delay would be incurred in applying such tests or in training the 
requisite number of reliable men, so that it would be impossible 
to enter upon the whole field for a considerable time. 
Another hindrance would be the difficulty or impossibility of 
securing at once a sufficient supply of a reliable brand of “ tuber¬ 
culin. With a fully equipped State veterinary college the work 
of prepaiing this agent might be undertaken there, but with this 
institution still in embryo this is impossible. 
We may turn, therefore, to the second or progressive method 
as being more promptly available. 
2 ' The Progressive Method .—By this method one reliable 
veteiinarian would be allotted to each county or other suitable 
district, whose duties it would be to make and keep a census of 
all bovine animals, and a record of all additions, sales, and 
deaths, and to make a post-mortem examination in case of any 
death nom disease or slaughter because of disease. He would 
also be called in by any butcher who found what he believed to 
be tuberculosis on opening an animal. On the discovery of a 
specimen ol tuberculosis, the inspector would submit this to the 
diagnosis of the chief veterinarian, and on his corroboration the 
whole herd in which such animal had been would be subjected 
to the tuberculin test, and those found tuberculous would be 
condemned, appraised, killed, and safely disposed of and the 
premises disinfected. Similar precautions, as under the radical 
system, would be adopted toward vermin, toward other animals 
that had cohabited with the diseased, and toward tuberculous 
attendants and new purchases. 
