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Show iO BEGUN ON TUBERGULDSIS Inspection of All Cattle in Idaho Is Ordered by State Officials. BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 9. Combined war on tuberculosis in cattle has been declared by federal and state officials this week. Infection of herds, dairy cattle and thoroughbred thor-oughbred stock is to begin at once. Plans for the eradication of the disease have been outlined and will be earned out under un-der the direction of Dr. J. D. Adams, director di-rector of the bureau of animal industry. For the work of making th2 necessary Inspection, which includes a test . which will react in case of tuberculosis in cattle, cat-tle, the sum of $100 has been provided by the state. To this amount the government gov-ernment will add a like figure. An indemnity fund of $25,000 for the payment for all cattle which are found, to be diseased and are ordered ' slaughtered slaugh-tered was provided by the legislature. The law requires that all cattle inspected in-spected which react to the tuberculosis Lest shall immediately be disposed of by slaughter. It also provides that a maximum maxi-mum of shall be paid to the owners oi all grade cattle killed and $50 for all blooded stock. The inspectors have the final authority to name the amount which ehall be paid for the stock aftr the revenue reve-nue returnable to the owner for the hide shall have been deducted. Only where the disease has entered the blood system will meat of the animal be condemned. Where the infection Is confined con-fined to the jaw or any other part of the body in its first stages the meat is not in any way affected and permission has been granted to dispose of It at public markets after it has been declared to be immune by the government slaughterhouse slaughter-house inspectors. |