NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 
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Animal Industry. A corps of assistant veterinarians and government 
inspectors have exerted their best efforts along this line, and perhaps no 
greater results have been accomplished in the history of this office than 
that which have taken place during the past few years. 
Of tuberculosis itself much has been said and written, and the sub- 
ject has taken the form of a study in a class by itself, but the future 
offers to this department a still more important work to be done, and 
that lies in the testing of all cattle; weeding out those diseased and 
perfecting sanitary measures to prevent its existence. 
Below we reproduce a photograph of a cow from which was ob- 
tained the supply of milk for a family living near Forest City. Shortly 
before the picture was taken the state veterinarian was called to 
see this animal, and at once pronounced her condition due to an ad- 
vanced stage of tuberculosis. About a year before this time a member 
of the family receiving the milk of this cow had died of tuberculosis. It 
was decided to kill this cow, and at the post mortem which was held 
afterw^ard the animal was found in even worse condition than expected. 
In order to show the tubercular lesions, the accompanying photograph 
of the same cow is published also, and it may be readily seen that this 
is one splendid and most conclusive example of the existence of the dis- 
ease, and also portrays the necessity of slaughtering such animals in 
order to prevent loss of human life and destruction of other stock. 
Another case, and one which attracted unusual attention, was that of 
the herd of twenty-four cows belonging to T. J. Joseph, of Hopkinton. 
No. 1. Tuberculosis Cow Near Forest City. 
