lO'i J-lAjy-E STATE COLLEGE. 



that IS.!' 2 was probably not an exceptional year in this''regard. we 

 onght to awake to the importance of removing the cause of this 

 great fatality as far as possible. This was the year in which grip 

 raged to saeh an unusual and alarming extent, yetfthe grip^cansed 

 less :i?.i. b i: ': ' ' :bis r^uicbe: :f deaths and all other forms of 

 coi:f.gi ::^ bi :-ri ::ii Luiei bib not prove so fatal as' tuberculosis. 



lb tie mucb. breaded disease, small pox or Asiatic cholera, 

 sb :\ i:;:: :, :'_■',- ^',\ \ in our State and for one year cause half the 

 L;,".: '_:.". :;.br:; b.sis does everv vear. the State and nation 

 TTouib con^hiie M- u-- ^-~^~J avaiii'rir iceais :o ciieob it. and they 

 w::i;". suoceeb Xc^^ :: Tioui^itii is an::e =urely fatal disease 

 tb:.i ri".ie: o: tiese. b :: 'u-: as sir^ij rreveitable. and, if throngh 

 loig :- i c:i:ii:: :- :ai:iiia:i:T 7r::i^ i: vr- li i iit come to regard 

 its :-?.-r'i,^^~ i- a. !!■:■-: ine'b:3.i:be, we n^igi:.: i; e oiiioaratively free of 

 it w::-::^ z"i vea:s Lir. Law says ■■Turjeic'Lu.osis is allowed to 

 c:i..ii:: i:s career o' deatb iniT because of reprehensible igno- 

 rance and cririiiai i:::'bbereLce.'' (Cornell University, Agricnl- 

 tu:ai Exreririen-. S:a:io-, Buii-tii i^o, '-5.) 



T i_ e g : - a : - 1 b s : a : i r : . _ ^ s : e - ion of bovine tuberculosis 

 n^z: X oriniiai ii ir .erce bas oeen the difficulty in determin- 

 ing wi:.: ani^iais w^ie abeoteb anb wbat were healthy. We have 

 h'^':. nc means by wnicii ~e coui :i :'e:ec: :be early stag^ of the 

 'ere weii :eb an 1 cared for she might for years 

 gion in a ne: a a a a raenace to the health of 

 iti^ont her true o a i:i:n b ing known. This 

 ing the disease made it practically impossible to 

 nost that conld be done was to kill off the 

 xin as they coold be detected. Now, how- 

 ever, this is changed. VTe nave a method by which it is p<»sible 

 to detect tuberculosis in cattle in any of its stages with a very high 

 degree of certainty. I: ti.ere are any cases that cannot be detected 

 by this means, they are either so advanced that the merest novice 

 will have no difficulty in diagnsinL' in era by a physical examina- 

 tion, or, the animals are very siign by abiected, the disease for the 

 time being making no pr<^ress, so that for practical purposes they 

 can hardly be considered diseased. 



In this brief bulletin it is impossible to describe in detail the 

 method by which the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle is made 

 easy and certain. It is perhaps sufficient to say that by the simple 



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*Keport of State Boarvl of Health for W3S. 



