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paying for services have gotten nothing for their money. The 
work of the veterinarian is discredited and the efforts of the city 
and state officials to correct conditions more or less disgraced. 
On the other hand, we find herds of cattle in this state which 
have been in existence for forty years and which do not contain 
a single diseased animal. When any herd of cattle is tested and 
found sound, especially if tested twice in succession, to make 
certain that no diseased animal has been passed over, it can be 
safely counted as sound permanently, provided no diseased ani¬ 
mals are added to it. An annual retest of sound herds of cattle 
is unnecessary and there is not the slightest reason for it. The 
annual testing of dairy herds causes a lot of expense and 
trouble, and can never bring practical results. To save a lot of 
expense to the public and a lot of worry to the owners of sound 
herds, a record of these herds ought to be made and a certificate 
of health renewed annually without an inspection, according to 
the judgment of some competent person who should be placed in 
charge of this line of work. A temporary certificate of health 
running not more than sixty days should be issued to the sound 
animals in herds from which diseased stuff has been removed 
and repeated retests should follow one after another until the 
disease is eradicated. In no other way will the eradication of 
tuberculosis ever be completed in any state or county. 
Veterinarians in private practice ought to bear in mind that 
human lives are endangered by the presence of tuberculosis 
among cattle, and this is not a matter where the fees gotten out 
of such inspections are of primary importance. It has taken a 
great deal of hard work on the part of the authorities to> arouse 
the public to a realization of the great danger from bovine tuber¬ 
culosis. All kinds of objections have been made to the inspec¬ 
tion of cattle which are used in our dairies or intended for ship¬ 
ment out of the state. Those who have shouldered the respon¬ 
sibility of pushing this campaign of education forward have 
been accused of many different things, among which was that 
it was a scheme to get work for veterinarians. It has been 
argued that the tuberculin test was not accurate. Veterinarians 
