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gering price for their ignorance. With the 

 present diffusion of scientific knowledge 

 there is small excuse for a dairy farmer to 

 be ignorant of the prevalence of tuberculosis 

 in dairy cattle, and if, when the most prac- 

 tical precautions against it are pointed out, 

 he fails to do his share in combating the dis- 

 ease, he must be left to his own devices until 

 such time as the State, in the interests of 

 the community in general and the dairy in- 

 dustry in particular, shall compel him to 

 maintain his establishment in a sanitary 

 condition and conduct his business with 

 ordinary hygienic safeguards. 



Tuberculosis as a subject is to the farmer 

 worse than the proverbial red rag to a bull, 

 but his wrath is of small consequence when 

 the problem is so grave. It is the mountain 

 to which farmer Mahomet must some day 

 come, and no one realizes this better than 

 the officials, agricultural and scientific, who 

 are charged with safeguarding the farmer's 

 interests. The subject cannot be discussed 

 adequately in a work of this character; all 



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