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stock owners decide what they want to do. I am a firm believer 

 in the tuberculin test properly applied, and I know it is within our 

 power to Avipe tuberculosis out of our cattle and keep it out. 



Member: Where I live in Western loAva sometime during the 

 early part of the fall there was 25 head of milk cows condemned 

 and sent to Sioux City. Seven had tuberculosis and the rest were 

 all right. That man received pay for the tuberculous cows. I do 

 not think that is right. 



Dr. Roberts: If a man has a bunch of cattle tested, ships ten 

 to be slaughtered, five might pass inspection and sold for food while 

 the other five might be tanked. They think the five that passed 

 didn't have it. This is misleading. There should be a distinction. 

 It is an unfair proposition to the people who handle these cows to 

 say that five were all right and the other five infected with tuber- 

 culosis. The difference should be made clear. If an animal has no 

 more than three lesions the inspector passes that animal for human 

 food. The danger in using milk from tuberculous cows is because 

 it is consumed in its raw condition, while the meat is cooked. I 

 would not knowingly drink the milk nor eat the flesh of a tuber- 

 cular cow. If we should label the milk coming from tubercular cows 

 as such how much of it would we sell ? If we should label the meat 

 how much of that would we sell ? I believe it ought to be so labeled 

 — labeled just what it is. 



President: We will now stand adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 2 O'CLOCK. 



President : We will open the afternoon session by an add?'css by 

 Dean Curtiss of the Iowa State College at Ames. 



ADDRESS. 



PEOF. C. p. CTJBTISS, DEAN OF AGEICtTLTTIRE, IOWA STATE COLLEGE, AMES, IOWA. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I want to congratulate the Iowa State Dairy Association upon the fav- 

 orable circumstances which attended the opening of this, your annual con- 

 vention. I am especially pleased with some of the new features you 

 have introduced. I think it is a good plan for dairymen when they come 

 to a convention to bring the cows along. It is a good plan to keep close 

 to the producer of the wealth that has made this great dairy industry, 

 and some of you, I notice, have done better than that. You have 

 brought your wives. 



