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Mr. McNeill said: "I never inspected export cattle that 

 closely. ' ' 



Mr. Kiel asked: "Do you mean to say we could stamp out 

 tuberculosis the same as cholera?" 



Mr. IM'cNeill said: "No I am not offering any solution of the 

 cholera question. I don't want you to get that impression. I 

 don't know how to get rid of it. It has been tried by a good 

 many men, but it seems to me there are ways that we can suppress 

 a good deal of it. Some say there should not be compensation for 

 slaughtered hogs that were affected. If a man has a cow that is 

 tubercular she is not useless ; she can raise a calf and produce 

 milk that is good if it is sterilized. Mr. Edwards, of Canada, 

 maintains three herds, a quarantine herd, a tubercular herd and 

 a tuberculosis free herd. Everything they get he puts in the 

 quarantine herd. If they are not all right they put them in the 

 tubercular herd and he says it is the best herd he has. In the 

 discussions that have come up in the National Veterinary Asso- 

 ciation it has been stated that there is no plan at the present time 

 that will do away with tuberculosis, but the plan adopted in 

 Pennsylvania will do a great deal towards that end. They make 

 application to the State for a test. The State does the work for 

 nothing and pays for the animal that is killed. There is another 

 thing. If a State like Iowa attempts to do anything lik^ this she 

 should have some provision that the animals that react will not 

 be thrown away, but that they should be sent to an abattoir and 

 inspected and if they pass that they should be paid for, and if 

 they have to go to the offal the owner should get an offal price. ' ' 



Mr. Kiel said. "Don't you take it that eventually people and 

 cattle and hogs will become immune from tuberculosis? We don't 

 have small-pox as we once had. People have it only in mild form. ' ' 



Mr. McNeill said: "Yes, if we live that long." 



Mr. Yoder said: "Is hog cholera more prevalent in a corn 

 country ? I think the question is largely solved by Mr. McTavish 's 

 suggestion about the woven wire fence." 



Mr. McNeill said: "Of course the pasture helps, but woven 

 wire fence won't keep out tuberculosis." 



Mr. Roberts said: "Don't you think there is some benefit in 

 putting a small percentage of solution in the tanks?" 



Mr. IMcNeill said : "I think there would be some advantage in 

 doing so and I think the liberal use of coal tar solution is a good 



