The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1898-10-20
agriculture.


The sishteenih ycfmoni agricultural n
port has iast been issas5. eOntsiDIrs th'
report Of the board OF agriculture, paper,
iron The neetiss Of ibe Vermont bort
cullursl society. The report Of Tie Vermont
dsiry meas association Of the Vermont
cattle commission.
Ftom The most careful Investigations,
tubeicnlosis is ttoashi 10 have been EXIT
eat in the state Tor noi more than thirty
or thirty i've years. Its contagious nstare
vss not Of Grst understood by the people.
aud soue people ct pressn, express The
opinion tbsi II is . "hnnbus, aud The
wofk Tor its suppression 10 carried Tor
ward by interested persons.
The fret cattle tested In the state were
the experiment sta Ion herd OF thirty
three suimsis. which were tested Dece 10
Der 81, 1898. OF this number twenty one
reacted, ony fifteen Of them showing
physical signs OF long disease. All OF the
resctipg cattle were killed sod iound
diseased. Those that did not react we're
placed 10 separate barn, and the stable
10 the barn where sll the cattle had been
kept YES thoroughly disiniected. 10
April OF the same year the healthy animals
we're brought back to the barn, together
with eighteen COWS tha, had been pur
chased aud by the tuberculin test found
free from the disease. Since that time
successive tests have found The herd Tree
from the disease,
Daring 1894 about two Thousand cattle
from suspected herds were tested by the
state, and little more than fifteen per
cent OF the number tested were found
diseased sod killed, This includes the
the station herd. where nearly three
fourths OF the cattle we're diseased and
one large hsrd where five si1lhs we're
diseased and slaughtered. None Of the
owners received any compensation for the
cattle killed. and no herds were tested
that we're net suspected Of hsving the
disease.
In 1894 the legislature passed q Law Civ
ing cattle owners half compensation for
snimsls killed by the commission. the Law
taking 1 a {, ct Feb. /, 1895,
During this year IA, l55 cattle we're test |
cd and 924 we're killed. The per cent OF
condemned cattle in farmers herds one
and five tentbs. The total expense to the
state WIS $40, 1913 Il. or this amount the
veterinarians we're paid 81 ,2l0 81 for serv
ices and expenses, and the commission re
ceived 50 800 70 for their services and eI
penses.
In 1896 the number OF cattle tested by
the commission was II. 1856; value OF killed
was IS 726 rs. Drovets received Si3l for
cattle killed, and farmers the remainder
The per cent Of diseased cattle in farmers
herds was reduced TO four and three
tepths; in the drover's herds TO sixth
Ienths OF one per cent The average cost
per head OF testing cattle during the year
was ttwenty seven cents. Vetensrisns
we're paid 50. 453 81; members Of The com
mission, 81 944 39. o total cost to the state
II S14, 204 49, including $50 for glsndered
, orses.
During The past year. or from July !
1893. 27,259 cattle bave been tested and
~ have been killed, making the average
,er cent I diseseed cattle three and two 4
enths; total smonnt paid for cattle killed, i
;l3, 494, psid vetipsri.ns. 80. CS3 ID; paid Z
aem bers OF the botrd for services and ey i
ensep, 50 3G6 Al; plsndered bors.f, $50:
laking the total expense to the state Sl9i N
1854. The average cost OF testing cattle .
er head was twenty one cents, and the II
versge price paid for cattle killed was y y
1862. N