THE SCOURGE OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
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Following are reports from the leading states : 
Spring-field, III.—Secretary C. P. Johnson of the state 
board of live stock commissioners said of the work of the board 
in carrying on the war against tuberculosis : 
“ During the two and a half years prior to June i about 
1200 cattle were tested and over 12 percent, were found to be 
affected with tuberculosis and were destroved. 
“The last general assembly having made an appropriation 
of $5000 per annum for the purpose of making compensation 
to owners for tuberculous cattle destroyed, the board on June 1 
commenced active operations and up to the first of last week 
had tested 358 cattle, of which number 108 reacted and were 
found to be tuberculous on post-mortem examination, a much 
larger percentage than had resulted from the tests made during 
the last two years and a half. 
“The attorney general recently.in an opinion held that 
under the law of this state our board has full power to make 
physical examination of any herd where the disease is reported 
to exist and on reasonable ground for believing that the disease 
exists in a herd to place the animals in quarantine and 
compel submission to the tuberculin test, and the board 
proposes to proceed on this line, as well as testing all 
herds on te application of the owners, so long as the funds 
provided by the legislature last. The tests will be made as 
nearly as possible in the order of the applications therefor, the 
board having now about 1000 cattle booked for the test. All 
animals of private individuals are appraised, and the owner of 
any animal destroyed receives 15, 25, 35, 50, or 75 per cent, of 
the valuation, according to the class that the animal falls in, 
which can be determined only by the extent to which the dis¬ 
ease has developed, as disclosed by the post-mortem examina¬ 
tion. The board will enforce rigidly the proclamation of the 
governor against the importation into this state of dairy and 
breeding cattle from other states that have not been offici¬ 
ally tested with tuberculin.” 
Albany, N. Y.—The legislature of 1894 enacted a law em¬ 
powering the state board of health to exterminate tuberculosis 
in cattle. Local boards of health supply the state board with 
information, and infected herds are isolated and killed by the 
state officers, the owners lodgingtheir claims for reimbursement 
with the state comptroller. The law has worked satisfactorily, 
but 011 account of the small appropriations made by the legisla- 
