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out this justice, and without such integrity, it would have been 
utterly impossible to stamp out that disease in the short time 
spent on it, if indeed it had been possible to do so at all. Men 
of skill in appraising cattle, and of incorruptible honesty and 
honor, are still to be had, and the appointment of such men as 
appraisers is essential to success. To proceed on the assumption 
that appraisers are not to be trusted, and to put down the in¬ 
demnities to guard against this, is simply to make a bid for 
dishonesty all round, and to delay success or to make it im¬ 
possible. 
Indemnities must of course be apportioned according to the 
skill of the appraiser. The actual value for the butcher, or for 
the dairy, or for raising a high-priced pedigreed calf every year, 
must be taken into account, and a just estimate arrived at in the 
case of each particular animal. Some animals that are beyond 
all usefulness, either for the butcher or dairy, might possibly be 
worth their hides, while others giving an extra large yield of 
milk to be sold sweet at four cents to ten cents per quart would 
bring a handsome price. But with a fair appraisement the com¬ 
munity could not be wronged by allowing four-fifths of the ap¬ 
praised value as indemnity, and such approximation to the real 
value would make every stock owner the helper of the officials, 
ready and anxious to have his herd cleared of the infection. 
Better a thousandfold that the unfortunate stock owner should 
have such a measure of justice than that the same money should 
be expended in police restrictions and costly inspections. 
The stock owner, whose animals are condemned, does not 
simply lose his stock, which if they were well enough to be a 
source of income, is a serious loss in itself. In addition to this, 
if he is a dayman, he must do his utmost to get milk to supply 
his customers, he runs the risk of publicity and of the loss of his 
customers, he must buy in the open market, and he runs some 
risk of getting similar infected animals ; he is at present put to 
the expense of slaughter and burial of the condemned, and of a 
thorough disinfection of the premises where they have been. 
The mere value of the cattle condemned is by no means the sum 
