ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 293 



Tuberculosis in Cattle, 



REPORT OF A MEETING OF ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN. 



A lengthy report of interest tall dairymen was printed in compliance 

 ■with a resolution passed at a mass meeting of dairymen and stock 

 iDreeders in Chicago, 111., Dec. 31, 1901, and at a similar meeting held in 

 Elgin, 111., Jan. 25, 1901. The Elgin meeting was attended by 200 to 300 

 ■dairymen and was a representative meeting, great interest being taken 

 in the subject. 



The report was made by a committee consisting of Samuel I. Pope of 

 Liberty ville, 111., E. J. Fellows of St. Charles, 111., and W. A. Goodwin of 

 €rystal Lake, 111. 



It begins with the first official recognition of the tuberculin test in 

 Illinois, tells how it grew and the ruling on the question together with 

 the trouble it caused and the heavy losses of cows to the dairymen. It 

 regarded the matter largely as a comspiracy of veterinarians to get fees 

 for applying the test to cows, and points out the dangers due to the con- 

 ditions under which tests were made, and also the improbability, and al- 

 most impossibility, of getting correct results. It also reviews the ex- 

 pense of making the tests while the State Board of Live Stock Commis- 

 sioners were doing the work, the number of cows slaughtered and the loss 

 in money to the owners of these cows. It was claimed in the report that 

 the tuberculin test had been used in a manner that has injured some 

 apparently healthy cattle, and that it develops and hastens the disease in 

 the cattle that react to the test. The report continues as follows: 



Your committee is decidedly of the opinion that laws for the suppres- 



