REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE. 
553 
Titberculosis .—This State has not taken much action look¬ 
ing - towards the control, or eradication of this disease. Only 
in a few instances, where special demands were made by the 
owners of suspected herds, and who agreed to abide by the 
decision of the Board and the veterinarian, was obtained aid 
from the State in the examination of their herds. We used 
the tuberculin test on one herd of twenty-one head ; nine of 
them reacted and we killed them under my inspection. Each 
showed lesions of the disease; seven of them, however, so 
slightly as to justify their sale for beef purposes. Another 
herd of nineteen head, which had not been tested by the 
tuberculin test, were distroyed under my inspection ; seven 
of them were diseased, five of which were condemned as un¬ 
fit for consumption. In the month of July we used the tuber¬ 
culin test on a herd of 132 head of cattle, belonging to Mr. 
H. B. Gurler, of De Kalb, who is one of the leading dairy¬ 
men in the State. He had taken special pains to weed out 
his herd, for a number of years, of all objectionable animals— 
of all cows that did not give a sufficient amount of milk to be 
profitable. He had been watching his herd very closely for 
the last two or three years, being fearful that this disease 
might possibly develop, as the majority of his herd were high 
grade Jersey cattle. Last spring one cow manifested signs 
of sickness, became emaciated and debilitated. He employed 
a local veterinarian, who diagnosed tuberculosis. Mr. Gurler 
then made application to the State Board to give him aid and 
advice in making the tuberculin test on his herd. The test 
was faithfully carried out, covering a period of about two 
weeks, with a sufficient number of assistants to observe the 
necessary rules. The tuberculinum Kochii was used with the 
surprisingly satisfactory result of obtaining five reactions of 
from two or more degrees increase of temperature, and two 
with a lower degree that may be considered doubtful. The 
five included the cow that had been sick for the previous 
three months. She died three or four days before we made 
the post-mortem examinations on the remaining four. She 
was in a very bad stage of tuberculosis; one lung being al¬ 
most entirely occluded with deposits. Of the other four, 
