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animals. Lot 2, fed some infected milk, on pasture, had all ani- 

 mals affected. Lot 4, also fed infected milk, but in the dry lot, had 

 all animals affected. Lot 3, fed pasteurized milk in the dry lot, 

 had no affected animals. The animals most serously affected made 

 less gains than those slightly affected, and these, less than healthy 

 pigs. 



Of the hogs that received the infection, 30 per cent only were 

 fit for food, 45 per cent were fit only for lard, and 25 per cent were 

 entirely condemned. 



It is difficult to account for the fact that two pigs out of the 

 pasture-fed lot, fed on pasteurized milk, developed tuberculosis, but 

 it is probable that these two were either affected at the start, or 

 were infected by the droppings of cattle. The test shows conclus- 

 ively, however, that milk containing virulent tubercle germs will 

 produce tuberculosis, even in the generalized form, within four and 

 a half months from time of infection. 



It was impossible to detect tuberculosis in any of the lots from 

 a casual examination of the living animals. 



All milk that is not positively known to be free from tubercle 

 germs, should be pasteurized before feeding. 



ALFALFA AND HOGS. 



(W. D. Gose, Spickard, Hogs.) 



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In accepting the invitation to talk on "Alfalfa and Hogs," I do 

 so without regarding their production as the chief end of life, but 

 simply as one of the means to that end. Your ambition is, or should 

 be, the grand acme of life, and in order to secure this we are will- 

 ing to devote our time and our thought and our labor to make 

 money. There never was a time in the history of the world when 

 the words "Money answereth all things," found in the book of Ec- 

 clesiastes, were more obvious than today. Thus, we labor to make 

 money because it answers so many things and purposes. It is 

 clearly our duty to build up our county, our State, and our nation. 

 A nation's greatest product is man, but men are of no value except 

 as they are virtuous, industrious, and intelligent; and it is to con- 

 tribute to the education and happiness of this class of people that 

 we are willing to raise horses and cattle and sheep and hogs. I make 

 these prefatory remarks to show to you that through all the years 

 of ceaseless toil and arduous tasks on the farm I have riot lost sight 

 of the higher things of life for which we labor. 



