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money that is used in conducting it as tax payers. I would like 

 to ask you if you approve of this practical work, or would you 

 prefer to have papers read. 



The Illinois State Dairymen's Association gives you this 

 test without costing you tax payers but a trifle; possibly this 

 work of yesterday and today will cost you five cents. Do you 

 consider this work of sufficient importance to ask the Legisla- 

 ture to be generous with us ? I make that as a motion. 



The motion upon being duly seconded was carried. 



President : Mr. Newman, I want to thank you and the 

 gentlemen here for the support you have given me. Some of my 

 best friends thought it was a mistake to have had it but as it 

 will not add one cent to the expenses of this meeting and only 

 cost you a trifle in taxes I wanted to make the experiment. 

 While I have tried to do what I could in this section and in this 

 state I wanted to know if I was working in the right direction 

 or whether you wanted simply fine talk and language or whether 

 you really wanted this work, and I thank you for the support 

 you have given it. 



Are there any more questions? 



Member: If you have an animal in a warm barn and take 

 it out will that produce tuberculosis? 



Prof. Russell: Gentlemen, I answered that same question 

 last night, but for the benefit of those that were not here last 

 night I will answer it again. The cause of tuberculosis is this 

 tiny organism which is always present in a case of tuberculosis. 

 You cannot introduce tuberculosis without that germ. The rate 

 at which the disease develops may be influenced by the environ- 

 ment, any condition which tends to lower the vitality. It re- 

 quires in every case the association of the diseased organism be- 

 fore a case of tuberculosis can be produced. That may come 

 from direct contact and it may come from indirect contact, 

 where a barn is infected with tubercular animals and they are 

 t.^ken out and another bunch brought in, the diseased germ may 



