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Willi the Lnd.v and flio Tiger, I leave mj paper to 3-011, with the ques- 

 tion farther along and unsettled. Can we indicate what this vast 

 increase of farm literature portends to the farmer, in what measure 

 and how it will help him and what kind of a citizen, neighbor and 

 church member it wall make of him, his wife and each if his children. 

 One thing is certainly indicated and will come, in part, out of this 

 increasing farm literature, to wit — wives and daughters in and of 

 these United States will be of its citizenship in full and as citizens 

 and taxpayers entitled to vote. 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



By W. P. McCRAY, V. S., Oil City, Pa. 



1 have been invited to address you on the subject of tuberculosis 

 or consumption among the domesticated animals. Tuberculosis has 

 been known for all time among all civilized people, and in all 

 habitable climates, among cattle-keeping people and it is known 

 among their bovines, and while it continues to exist among the 

 human race, it will prevail among their cattle, and its prevalence 

 among the latter upon how they are kept, what they are kept for and 

 upon the susceptibility of certain breeds or the constitutions of cer- 

 tain individuals. 



Among the human family, as well as among the ox tribe, has 

 Pharaohs dream been constantly repeated from the days of Joseph 

 to the present day, the seven well-favored fat-fieshed kine have been 

 devoured over and over again by the seven ill-favored kine, which I 

 have not the least doubt were suffering from tuberculosis and it is not 

 even necessary to have the seven ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine 

 to devour the seven healthy ones, for if a single tuberculosis cow be 

 placed in a dark, badly ventilated stable, with the seven well-favored 

 ones, kept under unhealthy surroundings and forced to an enormous 

 yield of milk, this single ill-favored and lean fleshed individual will 

 in time succeed in devouring the seven well favored ones, notwith- 

 standing the fact that the milk from this herd yields the greatly to be 

 desired 13 per cent, of total solids, yet will there be "death in the 

 pot" or rather the milk can "consumption at eight cents a quart" or 

 cholera infantum at the same price, or a pleasing mixture of the 

 two commodities combined. 



Admitting that tuberculosis is due to a specific germ, the bacillus 

 of tuberculosis, and that it can be communicated from one animal 

 to another of the same or of a different species by means of the ex- 

 pectorations after they become dry, or by the consumption of the 

 flesh and milk, or dairy products of tuberculous cattle, yet in order 

 to appreciate the danger to human beings from the use of the dairy 

 product of tuberculous cows it is important to have some idea of its 

 prevalence. 



It is an impossibility to get any statistics to show the extent to 



