206 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



had a tuberculous animal put into a stall by itself. The stall 

 did not extend to the ceiling-. There were other animals in 

 that room. I thought, Mr. Chairman, that that was a queer 

 thing for an experiment station to do. I would not want 

 them on my own barn, but I would like to know the opinion 

 of this gentleman on that subject. 



Mr. AvERiLL. Why, as I said before, Mr. President, if an 

 animal can be quarantined so as to be entirely separate from 

 the rest of the herd there is, of course, less danger. A box 

 stall, such as Prof. Shaw suggests, should afford protection 

 to the other animals in the herd, but it is not absolutely per- 

 fect. We know that because a farmer that has a tuberculous 

 animal in his herd keeps it among his other animals until, 

 perhaps, it dies. It does not necessarily follow that there 

 will be any secondary cases. On the other hand, there may 

 be some that will have the disease. If the owner has a good spa- 

 cious box stall to put that animal into, the danger to the other 

 animals will be very much less, but the danger would not be en- 

 tirely removed. Everything that can be done by the caretaker 

 or owner to remove danger, is, of course, an advantage, but the 

 only way to be absolutely free from the danger of infection or 

 inoculation is to keep the infected animals entirely apart. 



Secretary Brown. As pertinent to the subject to be dis- 

 cussed this morning, I want to ask pennission to read a few 

 lines from the Hartford Courant: " Wisconsin, by not apply- 

 ing practical forestry work, will soon suffer, in the practical 

 exhaustion of her pine lands, the penalty of wastefulness. 

 The figures of statisticians of the Department of Commerce 

 and Labor show that the pine shipments for the first eight 

 months of this year were almost as great as the corresponding 

 period of 1904 and greater than 1903, but notwithstanding 

 this seeming abundance it is a question of drawing upon the 

 few remaining larg^e tracts which are owned by the lumber 

 companies and which are being cut off very rapidly. The 

 development of scientific forestry seems to have come too late 



