THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 39 



pose ourselves to the extreme conditions, but we should get 

 plenty of outdoor life. You might ask me what kind of a barn I 

 would suggest. I do not know. A gentleman who came to me 

 recently said he had been through all that. He said : "I paid well 

 for it, too. I live in the northwestern part of the state. A few 

 years ago I discovered the disease in my herd. I turned the rest 

 out to pasture. More than a year had passed when I noticed I 

 had some fine animals. I decided then I would give them an- 

 other Tuberculin test, which was done and none re-acted. I will 

 tell you what I have done. I have built the sheds where they can 

 go out of a storm, and you will be surprised how little they go 

 there for protection, and there is not a single one diseased." To 

 prove that proposition, I know this is new to some of you. We 

 have in Lincoln Park monkeys, we get them from hot climates, 

 and we tried to keep them warm and used every possible means 

 we could for their comfort; every one of them would die with 

 Tuberculosis within fifteen months. Finally I got discouraged 

 and said I am going to put them out in a pen. Some of the Di- 

 rectors criticized me. They said: "You will kill every one." I 

 said it would be better to kill them than to have them die with 

 that horrid disease. The result is, we have monkeys that have 

 been there seven years and in perfect health. That teaches us 

 the same principle, and it is the one that is being taught all over 

 the world, to keep people in good health. 



I am going to call your attention to something else, there 

 are over thirty states in the union where they will not accept 

 dairy cows unless they are accompanied with a certificate show- 

 ing they have successfully passed the tuberculin test. Minnesota 

 and other states are shipping cows that are diseased into our 

 state because we have an open market. For that reason our live 

 stock is imperiled beyond what you expect. If this practice is 

 continued the disease will be driven into every herd. They are 

 even having public auctions and selling those cattle as tuberculin 

 tested cattle. If they think you will have them tested, they will 

 inject them before the sale, for they will not respond again for 

 thirty days. I know whereof I talk. I have seen hundreds of 

 instances like this. One of our institutions bought twenty cows 



