No. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 301 



How are you going to eradicate it from your herd and have your 

 tubercular-free herd if the disease is as easily communicated as Dr. 

 Gill says — blown in on the atmosphere from your neighbor's pasture, 

 blown into your barn or carried in by some person? How are you 

 going to have your tubercular-free herd unless the tuberculin test 

 is applied to everybod}^, and then, if you do that and pay for the 

 slaughtered animal, old Pennsylvania will be in the bankrupt list 

 and so will New York. This thing has cost us in Pennsylvania, in 

 appropriations — I haven't been able to find out how the money was 

 all spent — since 1895 when the first Act was introduced, about 

 11,750,000 in appropriations to the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 

 I make the assertion that we have derived no benefit in preventing 

 the introduction of tuberculosis into the State of Pennsylvania from 

 all our laws and all the appropriations spent by the Livestock Sani- 

 tary Board for that purpose, but we have given to a lot of honest 

 breeders of pure bred cattle, a bad reputation, which we had no right 

 to do. In place of attributing the reaction, when cattle are tested 

 after arrival, to the true cause which in most instances is the ac- 

 knowledged limitations of the test, they say that that man was a 

 crook. I have heard the former President of the National Holstein 

 Association, whom 1 believe to be just as honest a man as I claim to 

 be — and by the way I claim to be just as honest a man as stands 

 in the State of Pennsylvania, that's my own opinion of myself, you 

 know — I think it is an outrage to state, because an animal reacts 

 after shipment — and I never had such a case, I am not hurt yet, 

 personally, every animal I shipped has pleased ray customer and he 

 has come back for more, there is one of them here now that came 

 after a second one, and not one has given me any trouble, but I know 

 that my experience will probably be that of other men, so I publish 

 in the back of my catalogue, "Send your own veterinarian to make the 

 test; 3'ou assume the moral responsibility for the incorrection and 

 inaccuracy of it; don't take her if she reacts, but leave her on my 

 premises and nobody is going to brand her, she is going to stay there 

 as mine. 



We have been humbugged as much by immature legislation on a 

 subject we know so little about — I don't say that these veterinarians 

 are humbugging us, I don't say that there isn't anything of truth 

 in the discovery made by Kopp of this tuberculin lymph, because I 

 am inclined to think that where all the care and judgment and in- 

 telligence so ably discussed by Dr. Gill and so very ably discussed by 

 Prof. Hastings in a bulletin recently issued by the Wisconsin Ex- 

 periment Station. I was glad to hear Dr. Gill, if I understood him 

 correctly, state that this is purely now an economic question for 

 the breeder himself, that the protection of the consumer of marketed 

 milk is assured now by pastuerization; is that about right. Doctor? 



