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her flanks and sides with manure containing tubercle ba- 

 cilli ; some of- this dirt gets into the pail at milking time, 

 and some goes into the floating dust of the air. Here is 

 an added argument for clean stables and clean cows. 



AMiile the present methods of the Cattle Bureau take the- 

 cows that show physical evidence of disease, or that may 

 have tuberculous udder.-, and thus help to give the State 

 a fair system of dairy inspection as far as tuberculosis is 

 concerned, there still remains what has been recently de- 

 scribed in a bulletin of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, " The unsus- 

 pected but dangerously tuberculous cow." (United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 Circular Xo. 118.) This circular, by Dr. E. C. Schroeder. 

 superintendent of the Experiment Station, describes a class 

 of cow, and gives eases, where the animal, although appar- 

 ently healthy from a. physical point of view, is found to 

 be in such a condition as to be a source of danger to other 

 cattle and the public health. 



Beside the danger to human beings from the use of 

 products from tuberculous cows, particularly from milk and 

 dairy products, which may not be so very great, there re- 

 main the great losses to the stock breeder and dairyman 

 from the ravages of this disease among their animals, which 

 would make its eradication seem desirable for the protection 

 of their pocketbooks, instead of giving rise to a lot of stupid, 

 short-sighted opposition. It is not only proving a loss be- 

 cause of the neat cattle destroyed by it, but is causing heavy 

 losses to swine raisers, because the hogs that are kept in 

 cellars under infected cattle, or fed their milk at home or 

 at the creamery, become tuberculous and are then condemned 

 when sent to the abattoir. 



Last year between 21,000 and 22,000 head of cattle were 

 brought into this State for dairy and breeding purposes, 

 over 18,000 of which were tested after arrival by agents of 

 the Cattle Bureau; the rest, only a little over 2,500, were 

 tested by veterinarians outside of the State, and it is be- 

 lieved that most of these were honestly tested. That is, 

 a number of cattle, mostly milch cows, are brought into 



