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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
the animal and the inherent resistance to diseases than lack of 
exercise. This is one of the reasons why we find so many fat 
cows tuberculous.” 
To these deductions I most heartly subscribe and have es¬ 
pecially noted for a long time the pernicious teachings of some 
of our experimental stations founded by our government at a 
great expense for the purpose, among other things, of fostering 
our live stock and dairy interests which they are constantly 
tending to destroy, by destroying the vigor of our cattle. 
They teach that a cow yielding 20 or 30 pounds of butter fat 
per week is exercised abundantly by secreting milk ! These 
stations are founded for scientific experimentation but there is no 
science in such teaching. 
We admit that in a short space of time more milk and butter 
fat can be taken from a cow with a given amount of food, but 
the process is contrary to all physiological and hygienic laws 
and constitutes an enormous drain upon invaluable reserve 
forces which we can never replace. 
If we wish the greatest possible flow of water from a great 
storage reservoir, destroy the dam in a moment by some power¬ 
ful explosive and the valleys below get all its contents in a few 
hours but the reservoir, which it required years of labor and per¬ 
haps millions of dollars to build is destroyed and the water accu¬ 
mulated during several months has been wasted. 
The no exercise doctrine for dairy cows so warmly promula- 
ted is less rapidly, but just as surely unwise and ruinous; but so 
long as men without physiological knowledge are paid high sal¬ 
aries to draw conclusions trom such experiments, we may expect 
the evil work to go on, and tuberculosis to extend. 
Actinomycosis is rarely seen in New England and the eas¬ 
tern states. Drs. Clement, Baltimore, Md., Peters, Boston, 
Mass., Paige, Amherst, Mass., Kilbourne, Washington, D. C., 
Pearson, Philadelphia, Pa., Choate, Lewiston, Me., Howe, Day- 
ton, O., all report it practically unknown except by importation 
from the western states. 
The disease is rarely met with in the southern states, Drs. 
