"We have the advantage of knowing both the enemy and the means to be employed in combating it, and if tuberculosis shall ever become more firmly rooted in Pennsylvania, it will be because the lessons of experience are unheeded and available protection ignored." An appropriation of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for the use of the board in beginning the work of wiping out this disease would be none too large. The resulting benefits would be appreciated by the people of Ohio, as well as those of other states, where the work of repressing tuberculosis has been in progress for some years and where its fruits are now being reaped. The value of the cattle that died from disease in Ohio in 1901, according to statistics given in the Ohio Agricultural Report for 1902, is four hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and forty-four dollars ($422,744.00). How much of this must be ascribed to tuberculosis is impossible to state; but the fact that tuberculosis is by far the most prevalent infectious disease of cattle in Ohio, is significant. SOUTHERN CATTLE FEVER. (Texas Fever.) Not a single case of Southern cattle fever was reported in this state during the year 1903. The same is true for the year just closed. On several occasions tick infested cattle were brought into the state, but they were always discovered in time to prevent the infection of our native cattle. The following is the only case of interest: On August 22, 1904, a carload of twenty cattle, that had apparently become infected en route from St. Louis, in a tick infested car, were unloaded at West Jefferson, Ohio, and pastured on the farm of H. C. Wilson. About two weeks later, September 6th, these cattle were shipped to Philadelphia. Before they arrived at their. destination two of their number had died of Texas fever. An investigation followed, the Wilson farm was placed in quarantine for some time, but no further trouble resulted. The regulations of the Board require that all persons, companies, etc., shipping Southern cattle, or causing them to be shipped into the state, shall first obtain a permit from the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, which must show that the pens or yards and the unloading shutes that are to be used for these cattle have been inspected by the State Veterinarian and found to conform with the requirements of these regulations. Cattle coming from south of the national quarantine line for Southern cattle fever may be unloaded at such places for the purpose of immediate slaughter only. Shipments for any other purpose are prohibited. These regulations have proved effective in every sense of the word. FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF LIVE STOCK NOVEMBER 3, 1903, AND ENDING To balance of appropriation by the General As- To appropriation by the General Assembly for the By expenses of officers and members of the Board.. By expenses of State Veterinarian By general expenses By balance of appropriation unexpended 3,000 00 $ 49 20 2,330 00 949 81 1,587 94 550 38 [APPENDIX A.] LAWS RELATING TO LIVE STOCK AND THE BOARD OF LIVE STOCK COMMISSIONERS, ITS DUTIES, ETC. Revised Statutes of Ohio. SEC. 4210. [What cattle infected with disease shall not be brought into state.] No person shall bring into the state of Ohio any cattle infected with the disease commonly known as the "Texas or Spanish fever," or pleuro-pneumonia, rinderpest, or other contagious diseases or any cattle liable to impart such fever or disease to other cattle; but this section shall not affect common carriers who are not the owners of cattle. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be liable to any person injured by bringing such cattle into the state in the amount of any loss occasioned thereby, in addition to other penalties provided by law. (For importing cattle infected with Spanish fever see Sec. 7003.) SEC. 4211. [Presumptions in actions to recover damages for infection.] Whenever any Texas or Cherokee cattle, liable to impart disease, are brought into the state, and any such disease as Texas or Spanish fever makes its appearance within sixty days, and infects other cattle that have. been on the same highway, common or pasture ground traveled over by such Texas or Cherokee cattle with such disease, such fact shall be deemed and taken in action to recover damages as prima facie evidence that such Texas or Cherokee cattle were infected with the disease known as the "Texas or Spanish fever," and that they imparted such disease; and the owner of such Texas or Cherokee cattle at the time they were brought into the state, and the owner of such cattle at the time the disease makes its appearance, shall be jointly and severally liable for any damages resulting from such disease. SEC. 4211-6. [Transportation of cholera-infected hogs.] From and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons owning or having charge of any hog or hogs infected with cholera to transport the same within the borders of this state. SEC. 4211-7. [Liability of violator.] Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be liable for all damages resulting from the introduction of such disease thereby, to be recovered by any person so damaged, and shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the jail of the county not exceeding six months, or both. SEC. 4211-8. [Common carriers or employes not affected, etc.] This act shall not be construed so as to affect common carriers or their employes and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. SEC. 4211-9. [Board of live stock commissioners.] The Ohio state board of agriculture shall be and is hereby constituted the board of live stock commissioners for the promotion and protection of the live stock interests of the state and the prevention of the spread of in fectious and contagious diseases among domestic animals and the extermination of the same; and to co-operate with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, in the suppression and extirpation of contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals. The board may elect such officers as it may deem necessary, and shall have powers in its organization and work to prescribe such rules and establish such regulations, not in conflict with law, as it may deem necessary, to secure strict quarantine and otherwise prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases among live stock and extirpate the same so far as it may be able to do so. SEC. 4211-10. [Duty as to extirpating diseases.] The board of commissioners are authorized to use all proper means to prevent the spread of dangerous and fatal diseases among domestic animals, and to provide for the extirpation of such diseases; and in the event of any such contagious or infectious disease breaking out in this state, it shall be the duty of all persons owning or having in charge animals infected with the same, to immediately notify said board of commissioners, or some member thereof, of the existence of such disease, and thereupon it shall be the duty of said board immediately to cause proper examination thereof to be made by a competent veterinarian; and if said disease shall be found to be a dangerously contagious or infectious malady, the board shall order the diseased animals, and such as have been exposed to the contagion, to be strictly quarantined in charge of such person as the board, or an authorized member thereof, shall designate, and to order any premises or farms where such disease exists, or has recently existed, to be put in quarantine so that no domestic animal subject to such disease be removed from or brought to, the premises or places so quarantined; and the board shall prescribe such regulations as they may deem necessary to prevent the contagion from being communicated in any way from the premises so quarantined. SEC. 4211-11. [Bodies of dead animals.] The bodies of all dead animals shall be buried or burned by the owners thereof, as provided by law. See Sec. 6923a. SEC. 4211-12. [An act to suppress dangerously contagious diseases of animals; expenses of quarantining such animals; duty of sheriffs and constables.] That any person having in his possession or under his care, any animal which he knows, or has reason to believe, is affected with a dangerously contagious or infectious disease, and does not, without unnecessary delay, make known the same to said Board, or to some member thereof, or to the sheriff or constable of the proper county, to be by him communicated to said board; or any person or corporation who shall bring into this state, or sell or dispose of any animal, knowing the same to be affected as aforesaid, or any animal having been exposed to such contagion, within three months of such exposure, or shall move the animal so diseased or exposed from the quarantine to which it was ordered by the board of commissioners, or shall move any animal to or from any district in this state declared to be infected with such contagious disease, or shall bring into this state any animal of the kind diseased from any district outside of the state that may at any time be legally declared to be affected with such disease without the consent of said board, except under such conditions as are or may be prescribed by said board, shall, upon conviction of either of the aforesaid offenses, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. And all proper expense incurred in the quarantining of animals under the provisions of this act, shall be paid by the owners thereof, and if the same is refused, after demand made by the order of the commissioners, an action may be brought to recover the same with costs of suit, which action may be in the name of the state of Ohio, for the use of the board of live stock commissioners. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs and constables to execute within their several counties all lawful orders of the said commissioners. SEC. 4211-13. [Records of board; report; printing expenses; compensation, etc.] The board of live stock commissioners shall keep a record of its acts and investigations of diseases of live stock and report the same to the governor on the first Monday of November, annually, and shall publish and distribute such bulletins and reports as may be deemed of general interest and information. The supervisor of public printing shall provide for such printing as the board may deem necessary and desirable to benefit the live stock interests of the state, under the same provisions as are made for other state printing. Each member of said board shall receive for his services the sum of three dollars per day and necessary traveling expenses for each day he is actually engaged in the investigation and eradication of diseases, of domestic animals by the direction of the Board. SEC. 4211-15. [Proclamation prohibiting importation of diseased live stock.] Whenever the governor of the state of Ohio, upon receipt of information from the state board of live stock commissioners shall * * * believe that any dangerous, contagious or infectious disease has become epidemic in certain localities in other states, territories or counties, or that there are conditions which render domestic animals of such infected district liable to convey such disease, he shall, by proclamation, prohibit the importation of any live stock of the kind diseased into the state, except under such regulations as may be prescribed by the state board of live stock commissioners and approved by the governor. SEC. 4211-16. [Appraisement and killing of diseased animals.] When in the opinion of the commissioners it shall be necessary to prevent the further spread of any dangerous, contagious or infectious disease among the live stock of the state, to destroy animals affected with or which have been exposed to any such disease, it shall determine what animals shall be killed, and shall appraise or cause the same to be appraised, by disinterested citizens, as hereinafter provided, and cause such animals to be killed, and their carcasses to be disposed of as in the judgment of the commission will best protect the health of the domestic animals of the locality; provided, that no animal shall * **be slaughtered under the provisions of this act unless first examined by a competent veterinarian in the employ of the commission, and the disease with which it is affected or to which it has been exposed adjudged to be a dangerous and contagious malady. SEC. 4211-16a. [Appointment of veterinarian; compensation; additional veterinarians, etc.] The board of live stock commissioners shall appoint a competent veterinarian whose compensation shall be fixed by the board; such veterinarian to perform all duties prescribed by the board and be subject to such rules and regulations as it may adopt. In case of an out |