TUBERCULOSIS. 45 



State Should Bear Part of Loss. — New York 

 State now has a law under which the state pays 

 a part of the value of tuherculous cows up to 

 $75, so the loss does not come entirely on the 

 owner. I believe this is right, as every one is 

 interested in having milk free from contamina- 

 tion by disease germsi and should help pay the 

 losses. It is not right that the owner of the 

 cows should stand all the loss. The owner is 

 innocent in 99 cases out of 100. No man who 

 has had experience in this field will undertake 

 to select tuberculous cows from a herd. He can 

 detect those in the advanced stages, but he can- 

 not detect one out of five, scarcely one out of 

 twenty, except by the use of the tuberculin test. 



