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A. S. HEATH. 
commended those noble, strong, healthy and robust cattle as the 
hope of the great dairy industry in the United States. Free 
from tuberculosis and other diseases, these large, vigorous ani¬ 
mals, with a grand record of great milk, butter and beef produc¬ 
tion of surpassing excellence, after a few importations, were un¬ 
fortunately interdicted by the Secretary of Agriculture. For¬ 
tunately, a fine herd of Normandys, imported by Mr. Chester 
W. Chapin, is doing most excellent service in a few of the finest 
herds of dairy cattle in the country. One of Mr. Chapin’s herds 
in Sullivan County are proving the sanitary influence of that 
healthy location, as well for the vigor and large products of the 
cattle, as also of its good effects upon the delicate health of the 
human species. This is a beneficial result of climatic condi¬ 
tions for the dairy that the late Prof. Loomis may not have con¬ 
ceived, though he so well knew the hopeful sanitary results from 
the recent cases of consumption in the human race. Similar 
localities having the same hygienic conditions as Sullivan 
County should be utilized for dairy purposes for the supply of 
butter, milk and meat for children, families and hospitals. This 
method, with proper and thorough sanitary inspection, includ¬ 
ing the demand for perfect health of all breeding animals (the 
breeding being separated from the dairy proper), should markedly 
decrease tuberculosis in Greater New York. 
Reference has been made to the Normandy cattle because of 
their general health and hardiness. These qualities may be 
found in the several Swiss breeds, the Jerseys, the Guernseys, 
the Holsteins, the Ayrshires, the Dutch-Belted, the tough little 
Brittanys, the Shorthorns, the Red-Polleds, the Devons, the 
Herefords, the Aberdeen-Angus, and many of the native breeds, 
for the special excellences of the dairy or for beef products. 
But health and vigor should be demanded for every kind of 
animal industry, and especially in the breeding herds. In all 
these breeds, suitable and healthy animals may be selected from 
the several herds for the special products. 
Physiological breeding, feeding and care will soon eradicate 
tuberculosis from all our herds. The rich, nutritious grasses of 
