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advanced cases where a large dose has failed to cause elevation of 

 temperature." 



SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS. 



1st. For dealing with Non-Breeding Cattle. — When tuberculosis 

 is suspected in an animal, it and all in-contact cattle should be 

 subjected to the tuberculin test, and that all in which the 

 reaction followed, if in good condition, be slaughtered, and the 

 beef, if found fit after careful examination by a duly qualified 

 veterinary inspector, be sold for human consumption. That the 

 animal be valued prior to slaughter, and that the difference 

 between the value of a milch cow and as beef be made up by 

 the Government as in pleuro-pneumonia, or perhaps divided 

 between Government and owner. 



That all piners — wasters — reacting to the test, should be 

 slaughtered and their carcases at once destroyed, no compensa- 

 tion being given, and that neglect to report such cases to the 

 proper authority be considered an indictable offence. 



That all animals in which the tuberculin reaction indicated 

 that they were affected, but apparently showing no signs of 

 ill-health, if not fit for slaughter, should be prepared for the 

 butcher and slaughtered when fit, being in the meantime 

 removed and isolated from those in which no reaction had 

 taken place. That the healthy stock be again tested and the 

 same rules applied. 



2d. For dealing iciih Breeding Stoek. — In dealing with breed- 

 ing stock, I can do no better than quote from Nocard, who 

 says : " All those engaged in agriculture, in breeding, rearing, 

 feeding, or fattening, ought to carry out each for himself the 

 prophylaxis of the disease. Each of them is directly interested 

 in it. The methodical use of tuberculin, by denouncing the 

 sick animals at the outset of the disease, permits one to 

 isolate them, and to protect the sound animals from all danger 

 of contamination. 



As the young animals mostly escape the infection, breeding 

 would not be seriously interfered with, and the vacant spaces 

 would be filled in a few years. Of course, a farm once made 

 healthy ought to be protected from re-infection. To effect this 

 it would be sufficient to introduce into it no new animals 

 without having them previously tested with tuberculin. 



