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of cattle or any animals are menacing to human health, to 
show that we are such, and as such the public will be com¬ 
pelled to respect our calling. 
Now arises a question. If the flesh of such animals is un¬ 
fit for food, how absolutely necessary becomes the inspection 
of all meat; not the sort of inspection I have heard advocated 
by some, for the inspector simply to go around to each butcher 
shop and pronounce the meat good or bad, but that every 
animal should be inspected when slaughtered. Of course I do 
not want to impress any one with the belief that I entertain 
an opinion that those cases where an animal in otherwise 
good condition has a tubercle or cyst in some part of the 
body or organs, is unfit for food, but there are many cattle 
slaughtered in an advanced stage of tuberculosis and find their 
way to the sausage makers. This I say from personal knowl¬ 
edge, as I know of a number of instances where I have advised 
the owner to destroy a cow and get her out of the way, and 
in a few days she has been taken to the butcher’s. Just here 
we might speak of the great number of two, three and four- 
dav-old calves, known as bob veal, that are consumed all the 
time and are the direct cause of many cases of cholera mor¬ 
bus, particularly during the summer season—but my enthusi¬ 
asm over the inspection of meat is taking me from my subject. 
In regard to the propagation of tuberculosis there are many 
and various opinions set forth in our text books, in studying 
over the different ways of propagation of this disease. We 
also believe in its hereditary predisposition. We also believe 
in its contagiousness, and still I believe that from chronic 
bronchitis genuine tuberculosis may be developed, but I be¬ 
lieve the disease could be lessened by more judicious breeding 
of cattle, and the farmer or stock-raiser should be advised 
never to breed a cow that is not in apparently perfect health, 
as this is the only way to advise him, for if he waited until he 
recognized the disease, the trouble could not be averted in 
this way. 1 can tell one instance where the disease has been 
developed in three generations in a very few years, showing 
how the disease could be increased in that way, and cows suf¬ 
fering from tuberculosis have a great tendency to breed, and 
