170 
1909. 
A WONDERFUL COW! 
The Hartford Courant recently con¬ 
tained the following item: 
“Molly of Edgewood,” a registered Jer¬ 
sey owned by Thomas Holt, has taken 
third prize for amount of milk produc¬ 
tion in the United States in the past year. 
She yielded 14,000 quarts. 
This report comes from Southing¬ 
ton, Conn., and was printed as sent. 
This cow has “Alaska wheat,” “spine¬ 
less cactus” and other creatures beaten 
by several miles. Think of it, 14,000 
quarts will weigh over 28,000 pounds. 
That means 76 pounds or nearly 38 
quarts each day of the 365. If this cow 
is like others and yields proportionately 
at calving time she would give about 
100 quarts per day in her flush. 1 hat 
is going some and some more. Give us 
half a dozen of such cows and we’ll 
make certified milk that will fit the 
papers. And this “Molly” is only a 
third prize cow it seems. Who gave 
the prize and where are the cows that 
beat her? Very likely they have milked 
themselves away into water. Why can’t 
they keep their fairy tales away from 
the good old cow? 
FACTS ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS BY A 
STUDENT AND SUFFERER. 
I wish to reply to John Gould’s article, 
“What Do We Know About Tuberculosis,” 
on page 57. In the first place, his article 
is not based upon facts. I do not claim 
to be an authority, but I am a physician 
who has spent the best part of three 
years in bed with, tuberculosis. Previously 
I engaged in tuberculosis work in a large 
sanitarium, and perhaps saw more than 
my share of the disease while engaged in 
private practice. Moreover, I am well ac¬ 
quainted with dairy farming and the 
methods of handling milk in great cities 
from personal experience, and spent a 
year in a children’s hospital in a great 
city. Last Summer, while a patient at a 
sanitarium in Pennsylvania, I came into 
personal relation with the heads of the 
Phipps Institnte in Philadelphia and took 
occasion to learn the present status of 
medical opinion on methods of infection. 
THE RURAI> 
Mr. Gould states, “No great authority 
now claims more than the danger of tuber¬ 
culous milk conveying the disease other 
than in the form of intestinal disorders 
which may take on the form of intestinal 
tuberculosis, and this is almost exclusively 
found among infants, being in adults 
practically unknown.” It is generally 
conceded, both here and abroad, that of 
the two methods of infection, inhalation, 
and ingestion, or infection through food, 
the latter is the more common. The bacilli 
penetrate from the intestine into the lym¬ 
phatic channels and reach the circulation 
settling, if not destroyed, in places most 
favorable to their growth, as the lungs. 
Experiments on animals fed with capsules 
of tuberculous cultures, eliminating ab¬ 
sorption higher up. where the animals 
were killed during the process, of digestion 
have shown the bacilli in the thoracic duct, 
the main lymph channel receiving the chyle 
from the digestive tract. Additional ex¬ 
periments and observation have confirmed 
this fact, consequently Mr. Gould’s state¬ 
ment and arguments based upon it must 
fall to the ground. In order to give full 
measure I may add that intestinal tuber¬ 
culosis in adults is not practically un¬ 
known because it frequently occurs. I per¬ 
sonally know of four cases within a period 
of two years that were fatal. 
In regard to Dr. Woods Hutchinson's 
statement that “the known cases of tuber¬ 
culosis in children traced to cow’s milk are 
not above one-half of one per cent,” it 
may be said that it is about as difficult 
to convict a cow in such a case as it is 
to prove in a city of barrooms just where 
a man got drunk; on the other hand, the 
circumstantial evidence that children often 
acquire tuberculosis through tuberculous 
milk is strong. 
Mr. Gould says: “No doctor would sanc¬ 
tion for an instant the testing of humans 
with tuberculin.” I will inform him that 
in the oldest and most noted sanitarium 
in this country at Saranac Lake, N. Y., it 
is the practice habitually to use this test 
in all cases of doubtful diagnosis, while 
tuberculin is used all over the world as a 
therapeutic agent. Dr. Law’s statement 
that the tuberculin test should be supple¬ 
mented by physical examination and mi¬ 
croscopic and inoculation demonstrations 
is for the purpose of making assurance 
doubly sure, and is along the line of prac¬ 
tice of the best physicians to avail them¬ 
selves of all possible moans of diagnosis. 
In conversation with the largest milk 
NEW-YORKER 
dealer and producer in one of our great 
cities some years ago he stated : “We have 
had a regular test of all our herds since 
the tuberculin test came into use, and have 
had many cows condemned, but never in 
any instance did the autopsy fail to con¬ 
firm the tuberculin tost.” There are few 
things in this world absolutely sure, but 
the tuberculin test is one of the surest. 
Mr. Gould admits that it doesn’t pay to 
keep tubercular cows from the business 
standpoint. Now this is the situation: 
We have amongst us a disease which an¬ 
nually causes a tenth of all deaths. This 
disease is contracted most commonly 
through the digestive tract. It is a dis¬ 
ease common among cattle, exceedingly 
common. By far the bulk of medical 
opinion, with but a few notable exceptions, 
takes the position that human and bovine 
tuberculosis are identical. We have in the 
tuberculin test an almost sure method of 
diagnosis, harmless to healthy animals. 
Tuberculous cattle don't pay for keeping. 
If these facts are facts is there a good 
argument against applying the test? Is it 
not, on the contrary, to the fanner’s finan¬ 
cial benefit as well as his duty to have 
his herd tested? g. justice ewing. 
Massachusetts. 
A TENANT FARMER ON MILK. 
I have just read an article in the 
“Farm and Fireside” in regard to sanitary 
milk that raised my dander. I will try 
to express my views on the farmer’s side 
of the question. In the article in question 
It. M. Winans says there is feces enough 
received in the milk delivered in the cities 
“to fertilize a fair-sized garden.” Perhaps 
in some instances this may be true, but the 
majority of farmers are, I believe, more 
clean and painstaking than the men who 
handle the milk after it leaves the farm. 
As to conditions as they exist on the farm, 
first, the farm is worked by a tenant in 
the majority of cases, the owner having 
charge of all the repairs, and as long as 
the cow barn stands without propping it 
is all that is needed and it’ the drop leaks 
the liquids on the floor it does not mat¬ 
ter. “Next Winter we will get in a few 
logs and have some new flooring made: 
make this one do a little longer.” Then 
comes the inspector. “Well, this barn is 
certainly very unsanitary; clean it out and 
new-floor it at once, or keep your milk 
at home.” What is to be done? The 
tenant is a poor man, the owner is ob¬ 
durate, the inspector insistent; where does 
the blame lie? Being a tenant farmer 
myself I know whereof I write, having 
been six years trying to get an addition 
built to contain a cow stable that, would 
be clean, and have not yet obtained it. 
Right here let me say that if the country 
wishes to help the farmers let them help 
them to get what is coming to them from 
the sale of not only their milk, but other 
products of the farm, and they would have 
means to keep up the farm buildings and 
buy fertilizers needed to make intensive 
farming possible. I am for pure clean 
milk, now and always, but let the inspector 
examine the depot where the milk is col¬ 
lected, the car it is shipped in and watch 
the men and boys who are trusted with 
the care of this valuable food, and see if 
they are as careful and clean as the 
farmer is required to be, and I think you 
will find a great deal of the dirt that 
is laid at the farmer's door gets in the 
milk after it leaves the farm. 
TENANT FARMER. 
A GUERNSEY RECORD. 
Dolly Dimple, the fine 3% year old 
Guernsey heifer at Langwater Farms, con¬ 
tinues her wonderful record. She freshened 
in 
October and has since 
given : 
Lbs. 
Lbs. 
butter 
milk 
fat. 
15 
days 
in October . 
927.1 
41.63 
November . .. 
1898.6 
85.25 
December . . . 
1909.6 
91.85 
January. 
1806.4 
88.51 
Total 
110 days. 
6541.7 
307.24 
Her best day’s milk is 68.4 pounds, best 
day’s butter fat 3.625 pounds, best 30 
day’s milk (November 10 to December 10. 
1960.4 pounds, best seven days 444.S 
pounds, milk 22.034 pounds butter fat. 
All the above are the best records for a 
Guernsey cow of any age, and undoubtedly 
the most remarkable of any record so far 
made. This young cow now promises to 
continue her year’s work in the same re¬ 
markable manner she has commenced it. 
WM. II. CALDWEI.L, 
Secretary Guernsey Cattle Club. 
The Indianapolis News says that 
sheepkiiling dogs of Licking township, 
Blackford county, in which Hartford City 
is located, have put the township almost 
hopelessly in debt, or at least two years 
in arrears on the dog fund. Unless taxes 
are paid on more dogs and the death rate 
of sheep by the dogkilling route is greatly 
decreased the fund never will he replen¬ 
ished. The new trustee says that there 
are now claims to the amount of 8900 for 
sheep killed and the fund on hand to pay 
it is only $7. The claims will be paid 
in their turn,. 
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