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cattle intended for breeding and dairy purposes might be in¬ 
spected. 
Several of the Eastern States have legislation providing for 
the inspection of all dairy cattle; and the number affected are 
found to an alarming extent. 
The officers of the State Board of Health, at their last meet¬ 
ing, passed resolutions, asking that the next legislature pass 
suitable laws, and make sufficient appropriation, to provide for 
efficient dairy inspection. We, as veterinarians, will be only too 
glad to extend any aid that may be in our power, not only in 
getting proper legislation, etc., but in carrying out the inspection. 
I would suggest that the appropriation be sufficient to compen¬ 
sate owners for all affected animals destroyed, from the fact 
that that would be an incentive to the stock raisers and dairv- 
J 
men to have their herds inspected. 
Some eastern dairymen, who prided themselves on having 
healthy cattle, were very much surprised to find that, on using 
the tuberculin test, and having the animals that showed the 
infection slaughtered, upon post-mortem examination that a 
very large per cent, had tuberculosis. 
One of the strongest points in favor of dairy inspection and 
stamping out of tuberculosis, is the fact that one out of every 
eight persons dying in the United States die from that disease. 
In some counties of the old country, where the milk of the 
ass or goat alone are used, consumption is unknown. Through 
the energetic action of the Bureau of Animal Industry pleuro¬ 
pneumonia was completely eradicated from the United States; 
the eradication of a disease whereby the stock raisers of the 
United States were saved millions of dollars. Thus was eradi¬ 
cated a disease that was not communicable to the human 
family, either by the use of the flesh or the milk and its products. 
If such strenuous efforts were made to prevent the spread of 
a disease that was simply the cause of a pecuniary loss, why 
should not a more determined effort be made to stamp out a 
disease which costs this country annually the lives of thousands 
of its best citizens ? 
