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Dr. Cresset. Yes, this State is not the only one afflicted with it. 

 If jou should kill eveiT animal in the State, and then go to Massa- 

 chusetts and buy others to take their places, 3'ou would not be any 

 better off. 



Qaedion. Yet you claim that there is no special danger of a gen- 

 eral outbreak? 



Dr. Cresset. You are not going to see an epidemic like the epi- 

 zootic in horses. There is no reason in exciting all creation because 

 a few animals are sick. If 3'ou should go through the State and find 

 how many animals are diseased according tu the definitions I have 

 given, you would find a wonderful balance in favor of health ; even 

 in the worst German herds only about five per cent are affected. 



Question. In the case of a single sick animal in a herd, would 

 you recommend the destruction of the otliers that have been exposed? 



Dr. Cresset. No, unless an animal that had been in a contami- 

 nated stall right in the very place where this diseased creature had 

 stood. It would be folly to kill the whole herd because one animal 

 was affected. 



Question. What would you advise us farmers to do in case we 

 should detect a case among our herd ? 



Dr. Cresset. Kill that animal; thoroughly renovate the stall, 

 scrape it out, cleanse it thoroughly. If you see an animal growing 

 poor, showing S3'mptoms of the disease, and you are not readv to 

 kill it, quarantine it. And here is one of Nature's wise provisions 

 about that, a sick animal separates itself from the herd, it stands 

 under a tree nodding and sleeping, it will not run about with the oth- 

 ers because it hasn't the strength, it will quarantine itself. You 

 want to learn more about the business. I believe there is no kind of 

 knowlediJfe that it would be more to the financial interest of the State 

 to disseminate than that in regard to diseases of animals and other 

 branches of veterinary science. An agricultural college that does 

 not provide lecturers on veterinary science does not fulfil the design 

 of such an institution. They devote attention to fancy plows, new 

 fashioned harrows and horse rakes, but on these vital questions, 

 which so intensely affect the financial welfare of the State and its 

 citizens, the}' do not give you a word of instruction. You send 3'our 

 boys there to be educated in the business of farming, and the}' come 

 back and tell you they know nothing about the diseases of stock. It 

 is unfortunate for the farmers that veterinary science has not been 

 made a more important branch of instruction. You should ask the 

 public to furnish money to conduct that college on a broader scale. 



