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dead or under control to-day have supplied, are supplying 

 and will continue to supply creameries with milk that when 

 skimmed has gone, is going and will go to other farms and 

 infect other animals. 



Since that time, tuberculous animals that would have gone 

 to the larger packing-houses and been properly disposed of 

 have been, are being, and will continue to be slaughtered in 

 local country and town slaughtering-houses and be eaten by 

 man. 



Since that time, tuberculous cows that would now be dead 

 or under control have been, are, and will continue, supplying 

 the milk to the creamery, and thus contaminate the entire 

 product of that creamery. 



Since that time, tuberculous cows that would now be dead 

 or under control have been, are, and will continue, supplying 

 raw, uncooked milk to adults, children, invalids and infants, 

 much of it under the physician's directions. 



Since that time, individuals have taken into their system 

 the germs that will cause them to be a part of a per cent, that 

 we do not know of the 100,000 that died last year, a share of 

 the 100,000 that will die next year, and an unknown portion 

 of the 2,500,000 that will die within the next twenty-five 

 years. Every day's delay means the sacrifice of human life. 



And what would the plan have accomplished and gained 

 for us had it been accepted and adopted June 30, 1906? 



It would have practically eradicated animal tuberculosis 

 from this country. It would have been a monumental achieve- 

 ment for America. It would give a reputation to American 

 meat and dairy products unequaled by any country in the 

 world, and thus increased instead of decreased our exports. 



In 1901 Robert Koch made the startling statement that 

 man could not acquire tuberculosis from animals, and the 

 whole scientific world took up the subject and much time and 

 money has since been expended in attempting to solve the 

 problem. 



The plan I propose, while eradicating the disease from ani- 

 mals would make the problem immaterial, and therefore 

 eradicate both the disease and the problem. 



At one stroke the problem of the milk-supply of towns and 

 cities would be solved as far as tuberculosis is concerned. 



At one stroke the problem of municipal and country slaugh- 

 ter-house inspection would be solved, as far as tuberculosis 



