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Furthermore, owners of animals suffering from contagious dis¬ 
eases should be reimbursed. The co-operation of farmers in 
eradicating bovine tuberculosis will never be secured until this 
is done. There should be also an arrangement for utilizing the 
meat of slightly diseased cattle for food, and the proceeds of 
these sales should be used for helping to pay the expenses of 
this work. It is an outrage to destroy a man’s property without 
paying for it, and absurd to say that tuberculous cattle are not 
property. 
The relation that the use of milk from consumptive cows 
bears to the malady in mankind will never be known until 
thorough steps are taken to prevent its use. If all the tubercu¬ 
lous cattle in the state were killed to-morrow, and infected 
stables burned, there would be a fresh supply in a few years from 
the contamination of consumptive persons, unless boards of 
health and physicians are ready to look upon it as an infectious 
disease, call it thus in annual reports and vital statistics, and 
take steps for preventing its spread from person to person, and 
from mankind to cow. If we start a crusade against the poor 
cow, without taking any other precautions to guard against it, 
we shall be simply continuing to prevent a waste at the spigot 
while there is a big leak at the bung. 
Sterilizing food is a safeguard to the public health, while 
on the other hand, there is the economic standpoint of great 
importance to the farmer, of protecting healthy from diseased 
cows. 
I suppose that what I have said will lead to the hue and cry 
that “the horse doctors want a pull at the public crib, but they 
shan’t have it” so long as there are any fossilized politicians, 
unsuccessful lawyers, or even decayed labor leaders to be pro¬ 
vided for; but let me remind you that a capable veterinarian can 
make more in private practice than the salaries usually paid by 
the state amount to, and as I generally give my texts at the end 
of my sermons instead of the beginning, I will simply suggest 
to you, “to render under Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and 
unto God the things that are God’s.” 
