360 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL RERORT. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Glover — Not long since our paper got some statistics directly 

 from the packing houses of Chicago, and they show that the greater 

 number of swine they are receiving that have tuberculosis come from 

 the dairy districts. Now that means something to you dairymen. We 

 cannot ignore it. They begin to trace it right back to the dairyman's 

 door, and in some cases they are beginning to discriminate between 

 dairymen's hogs and hogs not raised upon skimmed milk. This trouble 

 can be overcome by pasteurizing the milk. And I want to preach sun- 

 light and pure air in our barns. Are not people cured of consumption 

 by sleeping out of doors in the pure air? It is the same with the ani- 

 mal. A great many of our dairymen seem to think darkness is best 

 for their cow and impure air. If we get the impure air out of our 

 barns we will largely overcome this disease that seems to be creeping 

 upon us. 



Remember two things — Pasteurize your skim milk and light and 

 ventilate your stables. 



Dr. Luckey — j\Ir. Glover is correct, but he is attaching too much 

 importance to pure air and light as far as tuberculosis is concerned. 

 One of the most expensive barns I ever saw contained diseased cows. 

 The disease is found also among the cattle on the range where there is 

 plenty of pure air and light. It is contagious, just as smallpox or any- 

 thing else is. It spreads regardless of air and light. And we must ap- 

 ply the tuberculin test. 



Mr. Glover — I would not have it go down before this convention 

 that I do not believe in the tuberculin test, because I do. Wg test our 

 herd; but there are so many people who do not realize the great im- 

 portance of sunlight and air, and I believe it ought to be emphasized. 

 The doctors recommend that consumptives spend as much time as pos- 

 sible in the open air, because the air and sunlight destroys the germs 

 of the disease. Some men are sitting before me right now who have 

 been cured of consumption in that way. Sunlight is the foe of bac- 

 teria. Put an animal in a foul close stable, with no ventilation, no op- 

 portunity of changing air, and his susceptibility to the disease will be 

 greatly increased. I don't take any exception to what the doctor has 

 said, but I want to emphasize these things. He said that one of the 

 most expensive barns he ever saw had tuberculous cows — and I want 

 to say that one of the most expensive barns I ever saw did not have 

 any light or ventilation. 



