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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
July 16 
ML!VE STOCK 
|| AND DAIRY, f| 
DR. JAMES LAW 0/1 TUBERCULOSIS. 
A REPLY TO MR. PARKER. 
( Concluded.) 
To say that there is no danger because 
infection has not taken place in certain 
cases, is about as rational as to say that 
the tubercle bacillus cannot infect at 
all, because it daily blows about in the 
dust of our city streets, yet every man 
inhaling it does not become tuberculous. 
There is always the question of suscepti¬ 
bility, and the specially susceptible are 
the first to suffer. There is a certain 
measure of insusceptibility attaching to 
the fact that the individual belongs to a 
different genus ; but the susceptible in¬ 
dividual of such different genus, suc¬ 
cumbs in spite of the difference, and can 
then transmit the germ more readily to 
the less susceptible members of his own 
race. 
It is somewhat discouraging at this 
date to be called upon to prove that the 
meat and milk of tuberculous cattle are 
often infecting. From the experiments 
of Villemin in 1865 onward, the history 
teems with successful feeding experi¬ 
ments, and though we are well aware 
that transmission in this way is not so 
certain as when inoculation is employed, 
yet the almost constant succession of 
cases in which tuberculosis has been 
speedily induced by feeding, puts the 
opposite opinion entirely out of court. 
Tubercle has an especial tendency to 
attack lymphatic glands, and these 
glands are scattered through the carcass 
as offered for sale in the butcher’s shop. 
The udder often suffers without show¬ 
ing anything which would lead to sus¬ 
picion during life. The butcher’s knife 
or cleaver used on the tuberculous in¬ 
ternal organs or bones, and even the 
butcher's hands, are ready means of con¬ 
veyance of the bacillus to other parts of 
the carcass. But it is even allowed by 
Mr. Parker that 25 per cent of meat and 
milk of tuberculous animals may be in¬ 
fecting. Is not this enough to demand 
intelligent sanitary protection ? 
It is shrewd, doubtless, to demand 
mathematical proof of the direct inocula¬ 
tion of man from cattle, in view of the 
fact that an experiment of this kind is 
impossible in a civilized country. Cir¬ 
cumstantial evidence is, however, abund¬ 
ant, and may be even more convincing 
than one or two actual experiments. 
There is, first, the comparative absence 
of tuberculosis from fish-eating peoples 
(Hebrides, Iceland, Newfoundland, Hud¬ 
son Bay Territory, Northern Norway, 
Sweden, Lapland and Finland), also 
among vegetarians like the lower orders 
of the Chinese, Japanese and South Sea 
Islanders. It is rapidly killing out our 
Indians who eat poor and diseased meat 
raw. A number of cases of accidental 
inoculation are recorded by veterinarians 
who had made post-mortem examinations 
of tuberculous cattle, the bacillus hav¬ 
ing been found in the unhealing sore. 
Other cases of direct inoculation are re¬ 
corded by eminent surgeons. A number 
of cases of tuberculosis in children con¬ 
sequent on feeding upon the milk of 
tuberculous cows are on record by Stang, 
Donne, etc., though the infants had no 
ancestral taint. The notorious cases of 
the children of Mr. Howe, of North 
Hadley, and Col. Beecher, have been 
widely published, and others can be 
easily adduced. 
If Mr. Parker will say that only a cer¬ 
tain percentage of the subjects exposed 
to infection contract tuberculosis, his 
position can be fully indorsed, for the 
same is true of all contagious diseases— 
small-pox, measles, scarlatina and the 
rest. But if he asserts that, because a 
certain number escape, no active effort 
should be made to protect the percent¬ 
age that would suffer, then he parts 
company with all modern sanitary med¬ 
icine, and goes back to the darkness of 
the middle ages. The human race sur¬ 
vived that darkness, and it will survive 
the utter neglect of sanitary measures 
to-day, for there remains the law of the 
survival of the fittest, and in due time, 
we should have a population with a 
strong hereditary immunity toward the 
tubercle bacillus. 
In closing, I would say that I have no 
interest in this matter, save the advance¬ 
ment of truth, and the adoption of right 
methods. I am on no tuberculosis com¬ 
mission, and have no duties connected 
with the use of tuberculin or other 
measure of sanitary administration. The 
New York State Veterinary College, it is 
true, prepares a tested quality of tuber¬ 
culin, and sends it at the cost of pack¬ 
ing and shipping, to approved parties in 
the State ; but it makes no profit on the 
transaction, and has no pecuniary in¬ 
terest involved. It aims only at doing 
what is considered best for the great 
live stock industry. JAMES i.aw. 
— THE STORY OF A CREAMERY. 
HOW IT RAN DOWN. 
How It Ran Up Again. 
Getting a Start. —West of Detroit, 
65 miles on the Michigan Central Rail¬ 
road, is situated the village of Grass 
Lake, containing a population of 800. 
The country around is mostly a strong, 
sandy loam, very productive when well 
cared for. There is little low bottom 
land inside of a radius of eight miles. 
The people, until the past four years, 
have depended altogether on stock and 
grain raising. In the Winter of 1893 and 
1894, a few of the best of the farmers 
conceived the idea of erecting a creamery. 
A committee was appointed to visit a 
firm in Toledo, O., who are headquarters 
for creamery supplies, to see what the 
prospect would be for starting a cream¬ 
ery in this place. Accordingly, two men 
were sent from Toledo to look over the 
situation. After looking the country 
over, they pronounced the situation 
capital. By the way, if there were a 
possibility of selling any machinery, the 
agents would consider the location good. 
The next step was to get the people 
enough interested to take stock, for it 
was decided to make it a stock company. 
The plant was to cost, when complete, 
$5,000, to be divided into shares of $100 
each. It took but a very short time to 
raise the money, and in February of 
1894, work began on the Lakeside Elgin 
Creamery. On April 7 following, it -was 
doing business, but not on a very large 
scale, having only about 1,200 pounds of 
milk to start with. 
A Big Shock at First. —Now comes 
the rub ; it was new to everybody in the 
vicinity, cans to buy and other expenses 
to meet which they had not looked for. 
But business was lively for a month, but¬ 
ter bringing a fair price, but when pay 
day came, May 15 following, it was a 
stunner to some of the patrons. After 
paying for cans and hauling, which was 
10 cents per 100 pounds for the milk, and 
$4 each for cans, there was very little 
left. What made it so very much worse 
was that a great many had former con¬ 
tracts to furnish butter to private par¬ 
ties at 18 to 20 cents per pound. At the 
end of the second month, the patrons 
began to draw out, and at that time, the 
plant was getting nearly 5,000 pounds of 
milk. The firm which furnished the 
creamery had told the company that, if 
they could secure 5,000 pounds of milk 
a day, the creamery would be on a pay¬ 
ing basis, and that they would need but 
one man and one separator. But alas 
for the 5,000 pounds ; that was a thing 
of the past. The flow of milk kept de¬ 
creasing, until, September 1, 1,500 pounds 
was all the milk they could muster. The 
buttermaker had decided that he would 
have to look for another job. Everything 
looked blue ! The outsiders got wind of 
it, and it was the general topic of the 
day. The stockholders sold out for 60 
per cent, and were glad to get out as 
well as that. 
The Company Hustles. —Everything 
moved along in that way until Septem¬ 
ber 15, when some hustling was done. 
A meeting of the stockholders was called; 
some of them were weak in the back, 
but a few of the more gritty ones said, 
“ No. I’ll put in every dollar I’ve got, 
before this creamery shall go down.” 
About eight of the members invested 
quite largely in cows, after the meeting, 
and the consequences were that they 
went into Winter quarters in good shape. 
The next Spring, the bottom was all 
knocked out of contract dairy butter ; 
butter got cheap with everything else, 
but here is where the laugh comes in. 
Creamery butter began to go higher, by 
three to five cents a pound, than dairy 
butter. When that got noised about, 
people began to inquire of the patrons, 
What did you get 'or your butter last 
month? The answer was 16 cents. 
“ Whew ! I got only 12 cents for mine, 
and had to take s'ore pay at that.” 
What the Creamery Does. —The ad¬ 
vantages gained by patronizing the 
creamery are, first, one has some money 
coming every month from the butter, 
without running to town two or three 
times on purpose to sell it; second, it 
solves the hired-girl question largely, as 
many of the patrons were obliged to 
keep help in the house before patronizing 
the creamery, while now they can get 
along nicely alone. Then 10 cows can 
be kept where only four were usually, 
and on the same amount of ground, and 
still the ground grows better. That 
may seem strange to some, but for all 
that, it’s true. 
How it Came Out. —From the time of 
the first meeting of the stockholders, the 
creamery has boomed ; the second Sum¬ 
mer, another separator had to be put in ; 
one separator could not do the work, 
and in 1896, a new 20-horse-power boiler 
was put in, and the old 12 horse one re¬ 
moved, as the milk had grown to 14,000 
pounds a day. Still in 1897, we were 
confronted with the same obstacles as 
the previous year, that of putting in an¬ 
other new 30-horse-power engine in-place 
of the 20-liorse-power removed, and a 
large 1,500-gallon separator, for the 
amount of milk had increased to 21,000 
pounds a day, with three men to do the 
work. 
(Continued on next page.) 
Jayne’s Expectorant is the right remedy for a Cold 
—a successful doctor’s prescription which has be¬ 
come famous under this name because of the cures 
everywhere following its use. 
For sick headache take Jayne’s Painless Sanative 
Pills.—Adi). 
Horse Owners! Use 
GOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
Balsam 
| __ A Safe Speedj and Positive Cars 
The Safest, Best BLISTER ever used. Takes 
the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. 
Removes Bunches or Blemishes from Horses 
and Cattle. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY 
OR FIRING- Impossible to produce scar or blemish. 
Every bottle sold is warranted to give satisfaction 
Price SI.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or 
sent by express, charges paid, with full directions 
for its use. Send for descriptive circulars. 
THE t.a WRENCE-WILLIAM8 CO.. Cleveland O 
’TIS FOLLY 
To lose the use of your Horse for a single day. If the 
Horse is SOKE, CHAFED or GALLED 
Moore Bros.’ Gall Powder 
Will effect a CURE ^‘HARNESS, or Money Re¬ 
funded. Price 50c. and $1 per Can by mail, postpaid. 
MOORE BROS., Veterinary Surgeons, Albany, N.Y 
GUERNSEYS. 
225 purebred Guernseys of the best American 
and Island breeding. Butter average, whole 
herd, 318 pounds per head. No catalogue. Come 
and make your own selection. 
ELLERSLIE STOCK FARM, 
R1IINECLIFF, N. Y. 
AT FARMERS’ PRICES! 
Two Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
from superior dairy cows. 
R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa 
Tfl CYPUANPP 3 ® hea<1 Jersey Cattle, to ex- 
IU lAU iln ll U L change for Sheep in good con¬ 
dition. Will exchange part or whole 30 head. Ad¬ 
dress GO Watson Street, Detroit, Micb. 
Spring Pigs from 100 Reg. 
Poland China, Berkshire and 
Chester Whites. Mated not 
akin. Choice bred sows. Serv¬ 
ice Boars. Poultry. Write us 
for free circular and bottom 
prices. Hamilton & Co., Cochranville. Chester Co.,Pa 
“9 buys a pure Poiand-Cbina Boar, 10 weeks old, 
9 m with long, deep, square body. As good as 
western breeders ask *15 for. Write 
C OLLIE PUPS and BERKSHIRE PIGS— 
From Registered stock. Circulars free. 
SILAS DECKER. South Montrose, Pa. 
Si 
IF YOUR CHICKENS VS'S, 
heads and see why. XiAMBHRT’l 
DEATH TO LICE OINTMENT "dll 
nx them quick and brighten the broods. 
100 doses lOc. postpaid. Book Free. 
D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, R. I. 
POULTRY 
P Wo keep everything in the POULTRY LINE, ♦ 
r Fencing, Feed, Incubators, Live 8tock, Brooders ♦ 
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4 send you our illustrated catalogue—it’s free for 4 
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♦ 28 Vesey Street, New York City. 4 
Cooper Dip 
Champion of tha 
World for 55 year*. 
Superior to all others. 
If no local agent, send $ 1.75 
for 100 gal. pkL to 
CYRIL FRANCKI.YN, Cotton Ex., New York, N. Y. 
SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMEN use one cent’s worth 
SHOO-FLY 
Saves 3 quarts milk daily if used in time. 
NO FLIES, TICKS, VERMIN OR SORES ON COWS. 
Thousands duplicate lUgallons. Beware of imitations. 
“ I have used several so-called ’Cattle Comforts,’ 
none equal to SHOO-FLY. It is effective and 
cheap.” F. L. Houghton, Brattleboro.Vt., Secre¬ 
tary and Editor The Holstein-Friesian Associa¬ 
tion of America. 
Send 25c. Money refunded if cow is not protected. 
Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co. 1005 Fairmount Ave., Phila., Pa. 
CHLORO-N APTHOLEU M 
KNOCKED IT OUT 
Inthe First Round. 
Microbes are responsible for 
lots of misery. They cause the 
HOC CHOLERA, 
CHICKEN ROUP, 
SHEEP SCAB and 
Cblorottaptboleum 
PUTS MICROBES TO SLEEP 
so they will never wake up. Will heal sores ar.d bruises 
quickly. We have direct branches in the principal cities 
of the U. 8. from whence goods are shipped. We will 
Bend you a sample gallon, freight prepaid. $l.SO. 
Agency is wortn having. Write for fall particulars. 
WEST DISINFECTING CO., 212 E. 57th St., New York. 
New York State 
Veterinary College. 
Established at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y,, 
by Chapter I S3, Laws of 18 ^ 4 . 
The best equipment for scientific and practical in¬ 
struction for undergraduatesand postgraduates, Most 
varied practice for students in the free clinics. Regu¬ 
lar graded course, thiee years of nine months each. 
Highest requirements for matriculationand graduation. 
Entrance by Regents’ “Veterinary Student Certifi¬ 
cate," or by examination Sept. 13, 1898. Instruction 
begins Sept. 22, 1898. 
Tuition free to New York State students. 
For extended announcement address 
Professor JAMES LAW, F.R.C.V.S., Director. 
Ill_I. J —500 sheep; must be in good condition 
If anlCll und cheap for cash. Address FIsC LI KR, 
Real Estate Exch’ge, 1209 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Mich 
EUREKA 
MCQT ROY It Tells You 
llto I DUA.which Hens Lay. 
I have just issued a handsome little book of 
_ _ _ testimonials written by prominent men who 
have built and used the EUREKA NEST BOX. Here are two of them : 
From the “Country Gentleman ,” Albany. 
“ The Eureka Nest Box is the best of the I 
kind we have ever seen.” 
IT’S EASY TO BUILD. 
From the “Poultry Monthly.” 
“It enables thepoultryman to establish a 
perfect egg record and pedigree.” 
I SELL THE FLANS. 
HART NEST FARM, Box 8G, Framingham, Mass. 
WE CAN GIVE YOU PARTICULARS 
of Live Stock for sale in all parts of the coun¬ 
try. We charge you nothing for this service. 
Breeders and farmers having stock for sale will do well to subscribe to our Breeders’ Exchange, 
and send us descriptions of what they wish to sell. 
AMERICAN LIVE-STOCK CO., 24 State Si., New York, N. Y. 
