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out to pasture. She did not do anything all summer, and I 

 was as well satisfied that she had lung difficulty as I was 

 that the calf had after I had seen the lungs. 



Dr. Lynde. I believe that this subject of tuberculosis 

 is one that ought to enlist the attention of all breeders of 

 cattle, and, indeed, of every person in the community. If 

 it is a fact that our domestic animals are suffering from tuber- 

 culosis, that we are eating the bodies of those animals, and 

 are in danger of becoming infected with tuberculosis from 

 eating such food, it is high time that the people should 

 know it and that we should take care of this matter. 

 Then, again, it is well known that milk is the natural food 

 of the young mammalia, and if we are feeding to our young 

 children the milk from tuberculosed animals and our young 

 children are liable to get tuberculosis from this milk, it is 

 a fact pregnant with importance and should command the 

 attention of every man in the community. I believe, sir, that 

 it is a fact that tuberculosis may be conveyed through the 

 milk of a diseased animal to a healthy child. I think it was 

 found at one of the public institutions in the State of New 

 York that almost an entire herd of cattle was affected with 

 tuberculosis. The cattle, as soon as they became diseased, 

 were isolated, and when they died they were examined, and 

 it was found that the disease affectins; those cattle was tuber- 

 culosis. I understand that it is the opinion of some men in 

 this State that there is not a herd of ten cattle in the eastern 

 part of the State in which more or less of the animals are 

 not affected with tuberculosis. If this is a fact it is one of 

 significant importance to the people of this State. And it 

 is further found that the cattle which we call thoroughbred, 

 which are brought in here from abroad and are bred here, — 

 cattle that are pampered and delicately treated and kindly 

 cared for, — are more apt to be affected with tuberculosis than 

 other cattle. If that is a fact, it is one to be considered by 

 every thoughtful man who breeds cattle. One day I asked 

 my butcher at home, who brings my meat daily, if he found 

 any diseased cattle among those that he slaughtered, and 

 what was his answer? He said that he found over one- 

 fourth of the old cattle diseased in their internal viscera. 

 On inquiring what the appearances were, he described to me 



