REMARKS. 



By \'ax W. Carll, Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner, 



I am not going to try to make a speech. I am no public 

 speaker as you will soon learn, but I will try to talk with you a 

 little in regard to my work. I have been connected with this 

 work but a short tim^e, — since the first of May, but during that 

 time I have had considerable practical experience. I have al- 

 ready seen a great many cows killed and have held many post 

 mortems myself and quite a good many in connection with some 

 of our veterinarians. The tuberculin test surely is no longer 

 an experiment, as Dr. Spear has already told you. It comes as 

 near a perfect test, in my opinion, as anything can, when the 

 tuberculin is applied under proper conditions and in a proper 

 manner. To illustrate : Day before yesterday I had a case of 

 an animal that was condemned, — a two-year-old thoroughbred 

 heifer. The owner thought a great deal of her. _ I went into his 

 barn and he said, 'Tt seems to me a shame to kill such an animal 

 as that." She was a beauty, fat enough for beef. He told me 

 that a man from New Hampshire came to see the heifer after 

 she was condemned and said he would give $50 for her and take 

 his chances with her. and take her into New Hampshire. He 

 knew that could not be done, but he thought it a shame to kill 

 her. I went in beside her and for some reason I put my hand 

 on her throat. I very quickly discovered something there that 

 was wrong. We took her down into the field and killed her and 

 after she was dressed I found on the back of the windpipe a 

 large bunch that was a solid mass of tuberculous matter. We 

 followed along in her lungs and the first time I took hold of the 

 lung I found a bunch as large as a good sized hen's egg, and all 

 through her intestinal tract we found bunches as large as peas. 

 That was the condition of that animal. The man had raised her 

 and thought she was perfectly healthy. The chances are that she 

 would not have lived until spring. Of course we do find cases, 



