DAIRY MKKTINC. HI 



as the Doctor says, where the animal will not react to the tuber- 

 culin test because she has so much of the disease distributed 

 through her system, but nine times out of ten a man who is used 

 to stock will condemn that animal on a physical examination. 

 We are taking very few chances in the tuberculin test if it is 

 applied under proper conditions and applied in the proper man- 

 ner. I am satisfied that the farmers of the State of Maine do 

 not realize what the State is doing for them at the present time, 

 in regard to their stock. Cut out the tuberculin test, cut out the 

 appropriation that the State of Maine is giving today, do noth- 

 ing in that line, and where would the stock and where would the 

 health of the people in the State of Maine be in five years from 

 today? Many men who have said that the tuberculin test was 

 a farce after they have seen one diseased animal opened will 

 say that they are ready to hold up both hands and vote for the 

 State of Maine to pass a law that every animal in the State shall 

 be tested with the tuberculin test. 



I believe that the time is coming, and it ought not to be far 

 ofif, when that shall be done. We are not eradicating the disease 

 as we ought to for the reason that we are not obliged to test. 

 A man on this side of the road wdll have his cattle tested and 

 will do all he can to stamp out the disease. His neighbor on 

 the other side of the road says it is a humbug and will not have 

 anything to do with it. He may have a cow that is diseased and 

 sell her and she will go into a herd where there are twenty and 

 next year the State will have ten out of that herd. So we are 

 not getting along as we should if every animal was tested. If 

 you clean out your herd at the present time and buy more cows, 

 unless you insist that they are tested, you are liable to buy the 

 disease right back again. So it is not advisable for the State to 

 take any backward steps, but we should press on and do all we 

 can. I believe the stock interests and the health of the people of 

 Maine today depend as much on the health of our dairy herd.'; 

 as on any one thing. 



