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test them again and you can probably rid your herd in that way. 
It is not a good plan to test either immediately before or after calv- 
ing. I would rather test them immediately before than three or 
four weeks after calving because there are many conditions that 
would produce a rise of temperature. 
Lee Hopper said: "Is it posible for the offspring to be healthy 
and all right? I read an article that said it was possible for a 
tubercular cow to raise healthy calves." 
Dr. McNeill: "That is a fact. "We do not consider congenital 
tuberculosis. If the animal had generalized tuberculosis or tuber- 
culosis of the udder, you might have tuberculosis in the calf. But 
in carrying out the Bang system the calf is born, taken right out, 
placed with a nurse cow or fed on milk from the mother that has 
been heated and you can raise them that way. They do this in 
Denmark, which is a great dairy country and where they have a 
great deal of tuberculosis. I believe that the only successful way 
to deal with it is for the state to pay a part of the loss sustained 
in condemning the cattle. The New York Legislature has appro- 
priated a great deal of money to help in the eradication in New 
York state of tuberculosis and to pay in part for animals that are 
condemned. Here is the proposition that confronts the stock men 
right now. They are testing their cattle on the sly. They are 
shipping them to Chicago and getting rid of them. When public 
opinion comes she will force this thing, the Legislature will get 
busy and the fellow that has been hanging back will find himself 
with a lot of tubercular cattle. The state authorities will come 
along and do something with them and he will not realize what he 
should. If you test them and get rid of them you will be doing 
the wise thing. We had glanders north of Ames a while ago. A 
man had been doing some work on a grade in one of the nearby 
towns and had lost one horse six weeks before the time he called 
me. Other horses had been sick. One of them the girl had been 
riding to town, driving around and hitching to the general hitching 
rack. They evidently knew that they had glanders because they 
had been working on the same grade with a man that had seventy 
head of mules that had glanders. Finally he sent for me and said 
he thought his horses had distemper. After asking a few questions 
I decided they had glanders. When I went out I found that three 
of them should have been killed several days before. On the nasal 
septum of one of them was a hole eaten through as big as a dollar 
and the horse could hardly breathe. I got his permission to kill it. 
