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Tlie expense attending all tliis is of some amount, but no- 

 where near wiiat one would imagine, and as the proprietor said, 

 " I was cleaned out once by Tuberculosis, and I am taking no 

 chances again." They were all thoroughbred cattle. 



How soon Bovine Tuberculosis would be wiped out if all 

 would follow these methods. 



Where cattle with Tuberculpsis have been confijied in sta- 

 bles, and where the stalls are made of wood and no disinfectant 

 usedi the surrounding wood work is more or less impregnated 

 with the germs, and we have made cultures from such places 

 and always found the germs. 



One will observe that in discussing the causes of Tubercul- 

 osis, as given above, there has run through them all but one 

 cause, that of 



CONTAGION, 



And that has been through the admittance of the Tuber- 

 culous germ into the body where, under favorable cqnditions, 

 it has inoculated the entire S3^lem, 



With the knowledge that we have today as to the causes of 

 Tuberculosis and its effects, as compared with what we knew 

 thirty years or twenty years ago, it will be admitted that we 

 have made great advancement toward the stamping out of this 

 disease, but we are not there yet, and it behooves all to do all 

 they can to add their "mite" in helping and aiding all they 

 know how to wipe this dread disease from off the face of the 

 earth. -i 



Statistics show that in the past forty years Tuberculosis of 

 the I/Ungs in man has diminished by about 38%, but- that 

 Suring the same period Tuberculosis of the Bowels has only 

 diminished by less than 5%. Dr. Wm. H. Parks of the New 

 York City Health Department reports that 40% of bottle-fed 

 infants die from Tuberculosis. 



The high percentage of Tuberculosis of the Bowels is un- 

 doubtedly caused by admittance of the germ from tuberculous 

 milk in the larger per cent of these cases. For milk nowadays 

 is largely used as a food for children, and it is from this source 

 that the mortality is so large. 



