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opposed to this. We have gone on, however, preaching this 

 campaign along the lines of education, showing the people on 

 the Missouri plan and the result has been as I indicated. We 

 fmd under these conditions instead of being a detriment it has 

 been the source of the greatest profit. There are thousands of 

 dollars coming in on account of what we have been doing. 



A man came in the other day with a letter from a Chicago 

 man to buy two hundred head of cattle. He said he had looked 

 around the country. He was offered a herd at a very low price 

 and he went to inspect the herd. He told the man he would 

 take his animals if he would guarantee them to be free from 

 tuberculosis. The test was applied and no response was found. 

 He did not take those animals and you may say that the man 

 made a mistake. There was evidence in his mind that those 

 animals had been plugged, so he decided to come to Wisconsin 

 and make his purchase. He would not buy those animals. 



[f you plug an animal you cannot get a satisfactory test. 

 Let me tell you something that is well worth knowing. If you 

 apply the test today you inject under the skin .the tuberculin, you 

 have got to have this expelled from the animal before you can 

 reinject and get a satisfactory test. You will not get a positive 

 response so every one may be easily misled under these condi- 

 tions. The only thing you can do is to have the test made under 

 such conditions that there has been no opportunity for plug- 

 ging- 



The way we do when we purchase an animal, we put that 

 animal in a barn separate from the others and allow a safe time 

 to elapse before we apply the tuberculin test ; sixty days is a safe 

 time. What is the result? Although we buy animals from the 

 outside we have never had in the eighteen years I have been 

 connected with the college one single case of tuberculosis. The 

 only way is simply by this test. We prevent its entrance in 

 this way. 



If there are dairymen here who are interested I think we 

 can consume the time very profitably by asking questions and I 

 will answer them to the best of my knowledge. What is a ques- 

 tion in your mind is one that I may not have considered at all. 



