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ooo cows to enforce compulsory testing it would take too many 

 veterinaries. It takes two days to make a test of 150 herds if 

 a veterinary did nothing else, and say there are ten to a herd, 

 you can see how many this would take, so compulsory is en- 

 tirely out of the question. The way for this to go is for every 

 man to learn how to test his own herd, then he becomes a con- 

 vert and in no other way will he become one. 



We have twenty-three cities that prevent the sale of milk 

 unless it comes from tuberculin cows; in Milwaukee there are 

 some tuberculin ordinances under which they are operating. 



Member : Could we not go into Wisconsin from Illinois 

 and buy animals that have not been tested? 



Prof. Russell. Yes, if you are a big enough fool to buy un- 

 tested cattle. 



Member: Is a man a bigger fool in Illinois than in Wis- 

 consin ? 



Prof. Russell : No, neither are honest. 



Member: A man told me that he had 70 animals tested 

 and none reacted, so he came to the conclusion that it was a 

 fraud. 



Prof. Russell: You cannot go in any old dairy district 

 without finding tuberculosis. The only place you will not find it 

 is in the back countries where there are none of the pure bred 

 and no animals have been brought into that section. Some moun- 

 tains in Pennsylvania and in Kentucky they have scrubs and you 

 would not find tuberculosis. You go into any old dairy section 

 where they have been breeding up their herds, Jerseys, Holsteins, 

 etc., and you will find tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is no respector 

 of persons, whether beef or dairy. We have more in dairy than 

 in beef; it is because of the greater opportunity of the develop- 

 ment of the disease has been present. In the human in certain 

 sections of the city among the people who live indoors are more 



