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the purchaser who would have the audacity to ask such a condition. Per- 
haps there is some truth in these assertions, but when the demand is 
sufficiently urgent and a slight advance in the purchase price offered as 
an incentive some of these notions with reference to the tuberculin test 
will change. This requisite concerning the tuberculin test is growing 
and will soon be quite fashionable in every vicinity and when it is as 
popular as I expect to see it soon it will not be necessary to offer reward, 
so to speak, for it but the sale of a cow for dairy purposes will be next 
to impossible without it at any price. 
I alluded to the fact that we could hardly expect to legislate tuberculosis 
out of our dairy herds. There has been considerable legislation along 
these lines, some, perhaps, that is unwise. And unless the individual 
cattle owners and dairymen take hold of this subject in dead earnest 
there will be more, for the consumer is going to demand protection. He 
certainly ought to have as much protection for his milk and rairy prod-* 
ucts, which are consumed in the raw state, as he demanded, and has very 
largely received, for his meats, which are usually well cooked before 
they are consumed. 
"We cannot spend time here to argue about its transmissibility from 
animal to animal, and from animal to man. We have not the time to 
discuss the identity of the disease in man and the lower animals. The 
giants have fought over these features of the disease and have brought 
in their verdict of guilty in every count. 
At the recent congress on tuberculosis held in Washington, not- 
withstanding the attitude of the renowned Dr. Koch, the discoverer of 
the tubercular bacillus that congress of scientists put this German savant 
utterly to route and forced him to modify many of his cherished notions 
regarding the dangers of infection of human beings, particularly chil- 
dren, by the ingestion of the products of afflicted animals and further- 
more unanimously adopted resolutions endorsing and approving every 
effort and every movement looking to the protection of mankind from in- 
fection from the consumption of food stuffs, meats and dairy products. 
I remarked at the outset of this paper that tuberculosis was a some- 
what burning subject. I still think it is. The world has begun a great 
campaign of education concerning it, children in the public schools in 
some of our cities are taking up the study of it, ministers, teachers, not 
to speak of physicians, veterinarians and scientists everywhere are de- 
voting more and more time to the study of it and knowledge concerning 
it is spreading faster than its ravages. States and municipalities all over 
this broad land are enacting laws for human protection. The dairyman 
and farmer and live stock owner of every name, unless they awaken 
soon to their individual responsibility will be obliged to pay much more 
than their share in the losses that are bound to follow in the wake of 
this world-wide movement, which has already been inaugurated looking 
to complete extirpation and anhilation of this great white plague. I 
thank you. 
Chairman: I am sure we have all enjoyed the Doctor's dis- 
cussion. It is late, and we will stand adjourned until this evening. 
