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we must use measures that appealed from an economic point 

 of view. 



We started in on an economic campaign and brought this 

 matter to the attention of the farmers by doing just what you 

 are going to do tomorrow. By holding these campaigns or 

 meetings throughout the state and letting the farmers see the 

 animals before they were killed and letting them see the actual 

 condition of those animals afterward. 



When good fat steers which would have topped the market 

 were killed and the internal organs were found saturated with 

 disease they became convinced, as in no other way, of the gravi- 

 ty of this proposition. What was the result? A change from 

 a paper to a demonstrative campaign. 



The first year after this we tested nine thousand, the next 

 year twenty-two thousand, the next year thirty thousand and last 

 year fifty-five thousand, and since the first of January, 191 1, 

 there have been twelve hundred and sixty herds tested in the 

 State of Wisconsin, over a hundred herds a day. We shall 

 probably have several thousand animals tested voluntarily as 

 the result of this educational campaign. 



Under these conditions the farmer has seen the gravity of 

 this proposition and he has become convinced of the necessity 

 of taking hold of this proposition. You are touching the sen- 

 sitive nerve and the nerve that runs to our pocketbook and we 

 are responding. 



If you can see this from its economical aspect you will 

 take hold of this question for yourselves. How can you tell 

 whether your herds have tuberculosis or not? There is no liv- 

 ing way except by the application of the tuberculin test. 



With all of the mistakes that have been charged against 

 the tuberculin test and to the fact that it produces disease, yet, 

 in the face of all that, I am willing to stake my reputation that 

 there is no known way superior to the tuberculin test. It does 

 not produce the disease. This test enables you to separate the 

 animals, those which are in the early stages and those which are 

 in the advanced stages of the disease. In the earlier stages, as 



