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good many cattle and a few in winter. We have killed, for 

 the last seven or eight years, an average of about twenty- 

 five cattle a week. I have thus far confined mj'^self almost 

 entirely to home-dressed beef, and largely to cattle that have 

 been fattened on the hills of Franklin County. Until within 

 about six or seven years it had not occurred to me that there 

 was any danger from disease, but some six or seven j^ears 

 ago we killed a creature which, although we did not know 

 what the disease was at the time, I suppose was probably in 

 an advanced stage of tuberculosis, for we found these little 

 tubercles €!ven on the shoulder-blade, on the fore quarters 

 and flank, on the hind quarters, and also largely on the 

 vitals. I went immediately to the man we bought the crea- 

 ture of. He came and examined the carcass. "Now," I 

 said, " if you can do anything Avith that, do what you please 

 with it ; I don't propose to use it, although the loin and the 

 leg are apparently as free from any disease as any creature." 

 He said at once : " I don't propose to do anything with it; 

 I don't want you should pay anything for it. If you like to 

 boil it up for the hogs, do so ; I certainly should not dare to 

 feed it to them without boiling it." I did not boil it, but I 

 fed it to my hogs. I do not know that I ever saw any harm 

 from it. Since that time I have been very particular to say 

 to my butchers, if they found anything that looked like 

 disease or unhealthiness about the liver or the lungs, to 

 report to me before they destroyed the liver or the lungs, 

 that I might examine them, and sometimes, if I have any 

 suspicion that we have a creature that may be troubled with 

 any disease, I have made it a point to be there and see the 

 animal dressed myself. During the last seven or eight 

 years, we have not found more than five or six animals a 

 year that we had any suspicion, before killing, or any proof 

 after killing, that they were in any way afiected with this 

 disease ; but occasionally we do have one. Sometimes the 

 disease is in quite an advanced stage, sometimes only just 

 making its appearance. It has been confined usually, as 

 has been stated, to the older cattle ; but one year ago we 

 killed a two-year old steer that had the disease in quite an 

 advanced stage. 



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