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W. HERBERT LOWE. 
sinners. Both see the importance and value of healthful food 
products, and I have yet to meet the man that has had dealings 
with the commission that was not well satisfied and was not 
ready to support the furtherance of the work. 
The u campaign of education ” has been already productive 
of much good. The preliminary work so far has been judicious, 
careful and thorough. It does not speak well for the people 
that this commission should be hampered in the important trust 
that has been committed to its care. I therefore bespeak for the 
commission that the legislature be asked to enact necessary 
amendatory legislation and appropriate sufficient funds to prose¬ 
cute successfully the work in hand. 
Before concluding these fragmentary remarks, I would invite 
your attention to what I personally believe to be a very impor¬ 
tant phase of the subject from an economic standpoint, which I 
referred to quite fully in an address recently delivered before the 
County Veterinary Medical Association of New York, at the 
New York Academy of Medicine. I refer to the necessity of 
breeding animals of greater constitution, stamina and vigor. 
The fact that tuberculosis is caused by the tubercle bacillus and 
is therefore not hereditary, does not lessen the importance of 
breeding dairy cattle having substance and stamina sufficient to 
resist infection and development of the micro-organism. We all 
know that in time of war a city that is not properly fortified is 
easily taken by the enemy. So, the animal body, if not fortified 
with a strong constitution and stamina, will be readily invaded 
by the micro-organisms of infections. The proper pabulum or 
soil for the development of microbes is only second in impor¬ 
tance to the microbe itself. All persons exposed to infection of 
tuberculosis, small-pox, or scarlet fever, do not take the disease 
because all are not alike susceptible. All men that eat the 
flesh or drink the milk of tuberculous cows do not contract 
tuberculosis. Whatever in any degree weakens or impairs the 
system of men or animals renders them liable to the invasion of 
disease. The animal that inherits a strong constitution and 
good health from its progenitors possesses a disease-resisting 
