STATE SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS UNWARRANTABLE IF NOT THOROUGH. 82 I . 
dealing with the disease in our herds our aim and strenuous 
effort must be to first annihilate the microbe in our herds and 
stables and then to prevent a re-entrance, under which latter 
head will come the exclusion of all tuberculous persons from 
dealing with herds. The disease, as it exists in man, must 
meanwhile be wisely dealt with by our boards of health. 
STOCK OWNERS SHOULD HAVE FAIR INDEMNITIES. 
One of the greatest obstacles to the success of laws enacted 
for the extinction of contagious diseases in animals, is the lack 
of just and reasonable arrangements in the matter of indemnities. 
The largest experience in this matter produces the strongest 
conviction that any unwise attempt at economy in this matter is 
really tne worst prodigality, because, if it does nothing else, it 
delays, or renders impossible the final extinction of the disease. 
I he position that, because an animal is affected with a con¬ 
tagious and dangerous disease, it is therefore worth nothing or 
less than nothing, apart altogether from its untruth, is a most 
suicidal position for any State working for the extinction of a 
contagion. With a number of our animal plagues, and notably 
so with tuberculosis, there is a large proportion that pass un¬ 
suspected, and fill the pail or even lay on fat as if they were 
sound. To deny indemnity for such animals, is to tempt the 
owner, who has lost a cow at intervals, from this disease, to 
market his whole herd, scattering the infection in a dozen, a 
score, or several score of new localities. Worse still, it tempts 
the unscrupulous dealer to buy, at a low figure, the herd of a 
farmer who has met with one or more cases, and to sell them 
out again at full market rates. I hus both seller and buyer are 
victimized, and the disease is spread simply for lack of in¬ 
demnity. 
To make the indemnity one-half of the appraised value, as 
at present in New York, does not remove this evil. The temp¬ 
tation of half the value is too attractive a bait to hold out to the 
man whose needs perhaps are great and his moral nature weak. 
The stock owner knows that if these animals were left in his 
