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animals, and so far as the work has progressed it has received 
the endorsement of a large majority ol our citizens. So fai 
so good. It is a first essential step towards our goal. But, 
after all, it is only one step. Of itself it is but a temporizing 
measure and gives us no assurance or hope of being even an 
approximately final settlement of the difficulty. Affected 
animals are by no means the only source from which healthy 
ones contract the disease. We still have a constant supply 
from the diseased human subject against whom no quaran¬ 
tine restrictions have yet been devised. With a continuance j| 
of our present system of housing stock and attending to i 
them, if all the tuberculous animals in the State were killed 
and buried to-morrow it would not be more than a few years 
before we would again have an appreciable amount of tuber¬ 
culosis, and in a few years more than that we would find our¬ 
selves in practically the same predicament we are in to-day. 
In order to be successful the war against tuberculosis must 
be waged along the whole line; and until such owners can 
come to realize the necessity of keeping their cows under 
entirely different conditions than at present obtain, and until 
the medical profession can educate the public mind to an ap¬ 
preciation of the necessity of applying to diseased persons a 
degree of quarantine at least approximately equal to that 
enforced against diseased cows, there will be tuberculosis, 
and to spare, both among cows and among people. 
In the suppression of this disease there are three essential 
points to be borne in mind. . . 
ist. That we shall have reliable facilities for recognizing 
the disease. 
2d. That we shall have the power to slaughter diseased 
animals when discovered. 
These two points we can dismiss with a word. Our facil¬ 
ities for diagnosis are all but perfect. In tuberculin we have 
a test harmless to healthy animals, and as to diseased ones 
not only wonderfully but fearfully exact. The power of 
\iughter we already have, nor need we fear that it will ever 
;>e withdrawn. 
But there is a third feature more important, far reaching 
