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W. H. HARBAUGH. 
What we have done is done well, but our whole duty is not 
yet done. We have a gigantic undertaking on our hands in our 
efforts to secure local dairy inspection for the different cities 
throughout the Commonwealth. We have to fight a monster 
which stretches forth its arms in all directions and clutches 
within its grasp all who can be controlled by fear, favor or value 
received, and this monster is the wealthy breeding interest which 
makes a hobby of high-priced pedigree cattle until it tires of 
them and then unloads them on the unsuspecting dairyman to 
infect his smaller herd with tuberculosis. 
Even from our standpoint there are two sides to this tuber¬ 
culosis question. The first is the public health, and I care not 
whether a man believes there is much or little danger in using 
the milk or flesh of tuberculous animals through risk of trans¬ 
mission of the disease to the human being, it is certain that such 
milk and flesh should not be used. Milk is a part of the cow 
and therefore animal matter, and if the cow is tuberculous her 
milk is part of a diseased cow ; it makes no difference how much 
it is boiled it is still part of a diseased cow, and should not be 
used for human food. The same proposition applies to meats 
from tuberculous animals, no matter how thoroughly sterilized ; 
and it disgusts me to hear our would-be veterinary politicians 
talk of using such meats the same as they do for the lower 
classes in Europe, when we have meat to spare for the world. 
No, gentlemen, we are not in Europe, and do not have to de¬ 
vour diseased products to prevent starvation. Eet us be consist¬ 
ent and fight against diseased animal products being used as 
human food. Another thing that surprises me is that there are 
veterinarians occupying high places who have the insufferable 
gall to tell us that milk from tuberculous herds when fed to pigs 
does not produce the disease in them and that there is little 
danger of its producing disease in the human being ! These 
are breeders’ opinions, whether uttered by veterinarians, agricul¬ 
tural journals, or other hirelings. No man who sees the post¬ 
mortem lesions of a few tuberculous dairy cows wants milk 
from any such animals in his house—danger or no danger. 
