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Public sentiment in some states goes even further, and there are state boards charged with the stamping out of stock diseases, which are given power to enter upon a farm and destroy animals, if it is necessary for the protection of the sound stock of other farmers. In the Pacific Northwest there are state laws and state inspectors for the purpose of stamping out orchard pests, and the inspectors have a Rh