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H. P. CLUTE. 
THE DEATH METHOD. 
It has been proven in Denmark, and followed in this coun¬ 
try, that healthy calves can be raised from tuberculosed cows. 
This is called the Danish method. It is carried out by taking 
the calf from the cow as soon as it is dropped, isolating the 
cow and sterilizing the milk from same to feed the calf. You 
can readily see that this is very expensive, as you have to keep 
a cow for at least a year and a half with no other remuneration 
coming from same except the calf. I would recommend this 
as being practical only where yon want to save a strain of stock 
that you cannot, in your estimation, replace or in very expen¬ 
sive animals, that you could figure out a profit in. 
I find oue objection that breeders of blooded cattle have to 
the tuberculin test, is, they are afraid that if any animal would 
react it would be scattered abroad. They have had infected 
animals in their herds and thereby hurt the sale of their stock. 
The result of a test should have directly the opposite effect, as 
after their herds have been tested, infected ones removed, that 
is evidence that their cattle are healthy and certainly are worth 
more to any man for breeding or milk purposes. The stock 
raisers that raise blooded stock ought to be the first to create 
the latter impression, while on the other hand many are going 
exactly the opposite direction and the contagion goes on. I do 
not believe in going at it in too radical a way, the way they have 
done in some of the Eastern States, not but what I think they 
are right in trying to eradicate the disease, but they defeated 
the end that they aimed at in many cases, simply because the 
breeders and dairymen had not looked into the matter thor¬ 
oughly themselves and they thought they were being perse¬ 
cuted. I believe that when they thoroughly look into the mat¬ 
ter and see that it is for their own interest and more thoroughly 
understand the disease, that they are the first people to help sup¬ 
press it. It has been my whole aim since I have held my present 
office to do as much to enlighten the cattle interests on this sub¬ 
ject as possible, and think that I have done more to do so by the 
post-mortems I have held of reacting animals than any other way. 
