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A. W. CLEMENT. 
Inspector of Cattle for New York State Board of Health, the 
president and secretary of the board, and the writer, suit¬ 
able rules and regulations were prescribed by the State 
Board of Health and a method of work was adopted which 
need not be gone into detail in this report, but which may be 
ascertained by application to the secretary of the board. 
After the cattle are tagged, and while the inspector is 
waiting for the order to kill to arrive, the owner of the crea¬ 
tures calls in one or more neighbors familiar with the value 
of cattle, who appraise their value, and then swear to the 
truth of the appraisal before a justice of the peace or a 
notary public. 
The owner of the animals then writes to the clerk of the 
Court of Claims, at Albany, for instructions for filing his 
claim against the State, and when he receives his instructions 
he forwards his application for remuneration, with the certifi¬ 
cate that the cattle were killed, and the sworn appraisal to the 
clerk of the Court of Claims, and when the Court sits it 
awards such a sum for the loss of the farmer’s stock as seems 
to it just and proper. 
The inspector of the State Board of Health has nothing 
to do with appraising the value of any animals killed. It is 
his duty to see that diseased stock is destroyed, but it is none 
of his business what it may be worth. Near New York City the 
animals were given to a renderer to compensate him for 
sending men to take them to his rendering works, slaughter¬ 
ing, and helping in making the autopsies. In more rural dis¬ 
tricts no difficulty was found in finding a man willing to kill a 
cow and cut her up for her hide. In the former case the car¬ 
casses were converted into fertilizer, in the latter the meat was 
rendered unsalable by sprinkling the cadaver with kerosene oil 
(an idea of Dr. R. A. McLean’s, I believe). No attempt was 
made to convert any of the animals into beef, as after they 
are tagged they become the property of the State of New 
York, and it was thought that in work of this kind it would 
not do for the State to attempt to save money, even by sell¬ 
ing the flesh of actually healthy animals killed on suspicion, 
as it might give rise to unfavorable comments. 
