EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V. 221 



if you and I ship and sell healthy animals our prices are cut enough 

 lower for the purpose of making good the loss they have sustained 

 by our neighbor's tuberculous animals that have been condemned 

 and tanked. 



Second, if the stockmen utilize the time between now and Janu- 

 ary first, there is time to stamp out tuberculosis and there will be no 

 need of any legislation, save perhaps a law requiring a test of all 

 registered stock brought into the state so that it may not be intro- 

 duced. But will they? Will they undertake it, that is without 

 legislation, to purify their herds from this disease? Its cause, 

 probably, has been from conditions affecting the dairy herds. It 

 may be fair to presume that the same condition will exist and the 

 dairy people will not, unless the law compels it, clean up their 

 herds. Therefore it is fair for us to discuss it from the standpoint 

 of compelling by law the eradication of the disease. 



Third, taking into consideration the fact that some pure bred 

 stock is infected, there is a way of dealing with it believed not to 

 require the entire loss of the breeding animals. As I understand 

 it, arrangements have been made with the national authorities in 

 pure bred herds whereby the herd after being tested can be sepa- 

 rated and quarantined by themselves. If afterward they are bred, 

 each calf is taken from the cow immediately and not allowed to 

 take its milk, but is put with healthy cows; the calves are raised 

 to maturity and are free from tuberculosis. So a man would not 

 meet' with total loss in a ease of that kind. Therefore I say that 

 with the pure bred herd it might be that the animal could be treated 

 in that way. I suppose in an ordinary herd the only way would 

 be that they would have to be destroyed. 



For the purpose of introducing a discussion throughout the state, 

 I want to suggest this toward the character of the legislation : Why 

 would it not be well to enact a law requiring that cows from which 

 milk is sold in the cities where the state now maintains an inspector, 

 be tested for tuberculosis and no such cows allowed in the dairy 

 herds? Why would it not be just for the law to give the packer 

 recourse upon the dealer of diseased animals for the sum paid for 

 thera, thus making it advantageous for the owner to stamp the 

 disease out of his herd? Why would it not be just, when by any 

 means the disease is discovered in any herd, for the law to require 

 the state veterinarian to test that herd and destroy all animals 

 infected? Why should not the local butchers be restricted to the 

 sale of tested meat? 



