New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 53 
be used with safety for food. It is hoped that in the near future 
the laws of this State will provide for the inspection of such ani- 
mals, thereby giving the small owner an equal chance with the 
large packing houses for the equitable disposition of slightly in- 
fected animals. 
The situation would be highly satisfactory if as consumers we 
could avoid eating the meat or drinking the milk of tuberculous 
animals, but under existing conditions we can hardly expect to 
do this. We shall approach perfect conditions in this respect only 
as we reduce the number of infected animals. There can be no 
hesitancy, however, in the acceptance of the statement that the 
inspected carcasses are much to be preferred to great quantities 
of home-killed beef that is sold without inspection of any kind 
and where the only protection the consumer has against the con- 
sumption of the meat of animals suffering from generalized tuber- 
culosis is the opinion and conscience of a man unskilled in the 
nature of this disease. If the meat and milk of animals suffering 
from generalized tuberculosis can be excluded, a long step in 
advance of present conditions will have been taken. 
BoULOPSY ON FUBERCULOUS: COWS ‘AT: CLOSE OF 
EXPERIMENT. 
At the close of the experiment we still had six of the diseased 
cows. Of these Chloe was in good condition for beef, while Millie 
D., who was now fourteen years old, was in poor condition. The 
others were in average flesh for dairy cows. 
As three of these cows had been diseased for five years, or 
since they were calves, and the other three had been tuberculous 
for at least four years it seemed best to hold an autopsy on these 
animals in order to note the progress which the disease had made 
during this time. 
In order to conserve the beef value which was in the cows an 
arrangement was made with a local butcher to buy such of the 
carcasses as should pass a proper inspection and were otherwise 
in condition for beef. The Bureau of Animal Industry kindly 
consented to send an inspector from Buffalo to pass upon the 
quality of the carcasses under the same rules in use at the slaughter 
houses in Buffalo and elsewhere. 
