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In this way a new healthy herd was gradually built up. The 
state assisting by providing tuberculin and veterinary services 
free, animals showing physical evidence of disease are de¬ 
stroyed. 
In Switzerland a somewhat similar plan has been adopted. 
There the state pays half the cost of test, and only entire herds 
can be tested. All cattle that react must be branded. 
The French method is slightly different : there if an animal 
is found to be diseased, the state tests the entire herd, the owner 
having the option of keeping those that react for one year or 
slaughtering them immediately and receiving compensation 
from the state.' All cattle coming into the country must also 
be tested. 
The Government in the Dominion of Canada provides tuber¬ 
culin free, this being done principally for educational purposes. 
It is also proposed to test herds in which disease is known to 
exist, and, as in France, all cattle coming into the country must 
be tested. 
In Ontario the Board of Agriculture have strongly advocated 
Bang’s methods among the farmers. If the milk, they say, 
from the reacting cows is used for the calves it should be pasteur¬ 
ised. 
They state that “ It is advisable to fatten quickly the animals 
that give a reaction with tuberculin, but are apparently healthy, 
and sell them to the butcher, making calculations to get rid of 
all reacting animals in the course of i8 months or two years.” 
They also state “Up to the present time these tests for 
tuberculosis by means of tuberculin have been carried on by ex¬ 
perts, veterinarians, etc., but that is no reason why any intelli¬ 
gent man who makes an effort to post himself as to the methods 
of keeping clean and using the various instruments should not 
test his own herd from time to time. 
In New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maine, Ver¬ 
mont and Rhode Island, owners receive half valuation for cattle 
killed and found diseased and full valuation if condemned and 
killed and found free from disease. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, 
