The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-17
en- him by Sec. 5s12 of the present

importance OF Bi6lnICClions
Your commissioner, also believing
that a thorough and systematic dis
infection of the barns and stables is
one of the most important features OF
this effort to stamp out disease among
the domestic animals of the state.
would respectfully recommend that
the law be so changed as to Sec. 56l4
Public Statutes, as to within
sixty days after the barns and prem
ises of the owners of said slaughter
ed animals have been thoroughly dis.
infected under the direction of the
commissioner or his assistant-the
cattle commissioner shall make out
and approve etc instead of as now
provided that the order to pay shall
be drawn within sixty days after the
slaughter, for in many cases, the dis
injecting is not done for longer time
after the slaughter than sixty days
and although your commissioner has
not approved any bin until the disin
lection was thoroughly done and so
reported by the veterinary assistant
i'm charge. your commissioner cannot
say what the result might be If some
one should bring suit under the pres
ont law
Ear Tagging Animals for Identified
tion
Your commissioner would also rec
ommend that all cattle tested and
found free from disease be ear tagged
for identification and a record kept of
same This would enable the com
missioner TO determine when retest-
ing herds what, if any, escaped detec-
tion ON original test and would in
a large degree, protect the farmer
when buying cattle to replenish his
herd, as the ear tag (Which should be
a special tag and one which could not
be removed from the ear and changed
to another animaD would be a guarau
tee that the animal had been tubercu-
lin tested and, as It would add to the
selling value of the animal. the owner
should pay the cost price of said ear
tags which should be made for, and
be furnished by the state and placed
in the animals ear by the commits
sioner or his veterinary assistant
when the test is made or finished
Shipping to Fertilizer or Rendering
Plants.
Your commissioner has not been
Obliged to put into practice the proyis-
ions Of Sec. 56l5, 56l6 and j6l1 p. $,
as no necessity has arisen for so do
ing and all owners Of condemned an
. imals have been willing 10 bury or
burn carcasses of same.
A contract. made with a responsible
fertilizer plant approved by the gov
| ernor and filed in auditors Office in &C
cordance with the provisions of said
law, put the state iu position TO act
under said provisions should the nee.
essity arise.
Use Of TubercuIin as a Diasnostic
Agent.
Much discussion as To- the value of
/ the tuberculiu test as a dagnostiC
/ agent i1 determining whether am an.
I imal is affected with tuberculosis on
/ not has been INDUCED iu by many dif
/ fereut writer's In the newspapers iu
/ Che past year. more especially in the
/ state of New York Your commission
er believes from his experience and
/ an the knowledge he can obtain from
/ the experience of the best veterin1r
/ Jams in his and other states and from
the books and publications of the u
/ S. Bureau of Animal Industry HAT ID
. is the best and only reliable way &C
/ absolutely determine. while The an
imal is alive. whether or not the dis
ease exists 800 such animal AS
proof of the fallacy of the doctrine 0
the physical test the commissioner o
am adjoining state who has announce,
that only the physical ties. viii bO
used ON state cattle. has also aunoun
ccd that all foreign that Us. AN cattle
coming into said state from amy othc
state OF country. viii Doe tested Will
tuberculin. IT, would seem tO me tina
"a test That Us not good for foreign cat
The was not good enough for state cat
B he As a result of the post morton
ON over three thousand cattle con
dcmnod by The tuherculin test up d
this writing, one single animal ha
been reported as nothing found.
Such being The case in this state.
does not seem necessary 90 discus
the matter more fully and woul
earnestly recommend IT'S continue
use as q diagnostIc agent.
Chambers on the Increase.
Chambers appears TO Doe more prey
alent In the state and in nearly ever
case reported ! have found on invc.
tigation. that it was traccable TO shi
mcnts into the state of horses from ci
les I'm Massachusetts and Connection
and western horses. and Your con
missioner would recommend that som
measures be taken to prohibit Oh
shipping of horses from sections q
the country known tO Dee infected wit
this disease except Boy permit and o'
animation or test
Black Leg or symtomatie Anthrax
Blackleg or symptomauc an.hra
has appeared In several localities an
seems Go Dee rocurrout. breaking ou
among the young cattle, in same ua
lures where 10 has appeared IN io
mor years Vaccination of herds
done iu season, usually prevents an
largo loss The state does the wor
. without cost TO the owner and The va
cine is furnished hy United state
Bureau of Animal Industry
, Shipping Cows 20 Massachusetts
Sections 56i92o2t. Public Statute
20 protect shippers of milch COWS
/ Massachusetts,. your commissions
believes is of no use in stamping oJ
/ tuberculosis in the state and is BOO Oh
. nature ul class legislation. no provi
I ION hriuu wndo in tho uragUut law