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shoes or rubbers when going among diseased hogs. These overalls and 
overshoes or rubbers should always be kept a safe distance from healthy 
hogs and from other agents which might convey the disease. 
Quarantine cards must not be removed until six months after^the 
last hog has died or recovered, and the premises disinfected in a way 
satisfactory to the local board of health. 
Farmers should be urged to dispose of marketable hogs for slaughter 
as soon as suspected hog cholera appears in a neighborhood. 
Neighbors, on whose farms the disease has not yet appeared, shonld 
never be allowed to help haul the hogs from infected farms, as there is 
great danger that the disease will be spread from farm to farm by such 
action. 
Tuberculosis:—I wish to make a special effort at this meet¬ 
ing to interest members of these associations in the subject of 
u Bovine Tuberculosis,” particularly as affecting the cattle 
breeding interests. The problem is a very large one and ex¬ 
tremely difficult. There is no possibility of question but that 
tuberculosis prevails among pure bred cattle. This needs no 
further demonstration, neither is there any question as to the 
reliability of tuberculin as a means of diagnosis. This has also 
been demonstrated beyond possibility of reasonable question. It 
is practically settled that the germ causing bovine tuberculosis 
and the germ causing human tuberculosis are identical as to 
species and differ only as modified by slightly different environ¬ 
ments in different animal bodies. These and a host of other 
questions need not trouble us. The difficult question is, what 
to do about it ? What steps to take and how to take them in 
order that the spread of tuberculosis among pure bred cattle 
can be lessened or controlled, without at the same time caus¬ 
ing the breeder great financial losses and endangering the cattle 
breeding interests of the State, which it is our business to foster 
rather than injure. I will have some suggestions to make later 
concerning this problem. 
WHAT OTHER PUBEIC AUTHORITIES ARE DOING. 
Pennsylvania tests cattle at the expense of the State, fur¬ 
nishing veterinarian and tuberculin. State pays partial valu¬ 
ation for condemned cattle. State veterinarian reports that 
when this work was commenced three years ago the task seemed 
almost hopeless. Statistics show constant diminution of react- 
