STATE CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
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Illinois, Indiana, and other states give limited appraised valne. 
In most of these states tuberculin is used either at the owner’s 
request or in such herds as are known to be diseased. Connec¬ 
ticut relies almost entirely on physical examination. 
In Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Massachusetts ex¬ 
perimental work is being conducted in various directions at the 
present time,and the results will be well worth noticing. In Massa¬ 
chusetts the principles are practically the same as in these other 
states. The state pays full value for diseased animals with a 
limit of $ 6 o. All cattle coming into the state must be tested, 
and tuberculin may also be used as an aid to diagnosis on animals 
condemned on physical examination by a qualified veterinarian, 
and at the written request of owners, provided they agree in 
their turn to certain conditions prescribed by the Cattle Com¬ 
missioners. 
In Massachusetts the work of inspection has been, I think, 
fairly successful ; in considering it, I would divide it into two 
divisions : ist, as a factor in the protection of the public health ; 
2d, as a help to to the farmers and stock owners in their en¬ 
deavors to rid their herds of disease. It seems to me that these 
two points must be considered separately. Many facts must be 
considered and the matter must be looked at from many points 
of view before one can gain even a faint idea of the magnitude 
of the subject, and it seems to me that in view of the many in¬ 
terests involved, since we cannot stamp it out by heroic meas¬ 
ures, we should be content if we can make steady and substan¬ 
tial gain. 
We have only to look back a very few years to the time when 
milk was sold and cattle were butchered without any kind of 
supervision whatsoever. At that time the meat from “ coughers ” 
and “ bolognas ” were placed on the market and milk was sold 
without any restriction, so far as the health of the cow was 
concerned. 
In 1876 (according to the Report of the Cattle Commissioners 
for 1895) an act was passed providing for the appointments of 
inspectors of provisions and animals intended for slaughter. 
