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March l::, 
Farm Manger and Diseased Cattle 
Those Tuberculous Cows. 
I K 1 were manager of those tuberculous 
cows mentioned on page 27(5. unless 
a physical examination would show that 
they were badly affected, I would cut out 
the tuberculin test and give them the 
best of care. I would see that they were 
supplied with an abundance of pure fresh 
air and all the sunshine possible, and 
should expect them to go on and do good 
work in the dairy for some time to come. 
The tuberculin test will condemn an an¬ 
imal that has the disease in a very light 
form, just as surely as it will one that 
is badly diseased. The State Veterin¬ 
arian of Illinois, in an article in the 
-Breeders’ Gazette,” said that there had 
been hundreds of cattle condemned by 
the tuberculin test and destroyed that had 
the disease in such a mild form that they 
would undoubtedly have recovered if left 
alone. I have personal knowledge of 
one such case. My neighbor over the 
way bought a grade Jersey heifer. She 
was pastured for three seasons opposite 
my house, and I saw her every day dur¬ 
ing the Summer and quite frequently in 
the Winter. She showed no symptoms of 
disease during that time. Failing to 
breed, he traded her to a neighbor down 
the road for a fresh milker. He fat¬ 
tened her and had her slaughtered in the 
Winter, intending to use a quarter in 
his own family and dispose of the re¬ 
mainder in the village. When she was 
dressed they found that her lungs were 
covered with yellow spots varying in size 
from a grain of wheat to a half inch in 
diameter; they contained a yellow sub¬ 
stance resembling eornmeal. The owner 
was afraid the meat would be unfit for 
use. and let it hang in the barn while he 
investigated the case. lie finally put 
the lungs in a basket, hitched up his 
horse and drove over to Ithaca, went up 
to fhe veterinary college and showed 
them to Prof. Law. He pronounced it 
a beautiful specimen of tuberculosis, but 
said nature had healed herself, and that 
the cow when killed was just as healthy 
as though she had never had the disease. 
p. 
Would be Diplomatic. 
[IE dairy farm manager you refer to 
is certainly in a very trying predic¬ 
ament, and as customary, a farm 
manager, if on a straight salary, is re¬ 
quired to do as told by the farm owner 
or resign, when many times the thing re¬ 
quired is dead wrong, as in this case. In 
a position of this kind I would test, them 
personally, and if some reactions were 
found I would lay the case before a friend 
of the owner’s who realizes the results of 
keeping tubercular animals in the herd. 
In most cases a friend has much more in¬ 
fluence than a manager, and his argument 
would have more weight. In this case if 
the owner knew just how many diseased 
animals were in his herd perhaps he 
would feel better, as he probably has vis¬ 
ions of a wholesale slaughter, when in 
cidedly wrong, and any man who will 
feed the udder products of a known tu- 
beeulous cow to his family, or sell them 
for consumption, is little sh’ort of a crim¬ 
inal. 
I think that if I were this manager I 
should put the case up to the owner as 
strongly as I could, just as I saw it, and 
if he refused to do the right thing we 
would part company. I do not think he 
would be under obligation to keep quiet 
about the condition of the cattle. If the 
owner is right and there is no danger or 
harm in using the products from these 
diseased cows, there can be no harm in 
other people knowing that they are dis¬ 
eased. n. 
A Farm Owner Talks 
R egarding the question of the farm 
manager and the tuberculin test, as 
a breeder of purebred cattle perhaps 
I cannot give an unbiased opinion on the 
case. The laws of New York State re¬ 
garding this test make the greatest draw¬ 
back to the breeding of purebred cattle, 
because the breeder never knows whether 
a sale will go through, or if his valuable 
animal will be seize*] and killed. A 
farmer nearby sold a young bull for $125. 
lie paid a veterinarian $10 to test him. 
and he was condemned. The Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture informed this man 
that there were no funds available, and 
advised him to kill the bull and dispose 
of the meat if it was passed as fit for 
food. So the man sold the bull for $40, 
provided that the meat should pass in¬ 
spection. The same veterinary who con¬ 
demned this bull spent two hours in a 
post mortem examination and ftiilcd to 
find a trace of tuberculosis! It doesn’t 
take much of a mathematician to figure 
out that the man lost $00 in this deal, 
besides a lot of trouble. 
It has also been proven time and again 
that the testing of animals does not make 
them safe. There was an article in the 
last issue of the “Holstcin-Friesian 
World" about a State institution buying 
tested cattle. The same tiling happened 
at another institution. Their own veter¬ 
inarian tested the cattle before they were 
accepted, and then they were placed in 
a new barn of correct construction, and 
after being cared for a year in the most 
approved manner, the cows were found to 
be tuberculous. ! 
To get back to the case in hand : You 
say that those 50 cows are worth $100 
a head as they stand. If they are grades 
and worth that much, they must be in 
apparently fine healthy condition, and if 
such is the case, I do not believe that 
they are a menace to anyone. If these 
cows were mine, I would give each one 
a thorough physical examination—note 
the breathing by placing the ear to the 
lungs on both sides, feel the glands in 
throat and flank, manipulate the udder 
to find bunches in same, and if I could 
detect nothing wrong I should not give 
the test. To all those that showed signs 
of something wrong, I would apply the 
test and slaughter the ones that reacted. 
And still further if any cow showed 
marked signs of trouble and did not react, 
I would kill her also. As regards the 
future actions of this farm manager, it 
seems to me that he ought to follow the 
dictation of his own eoncience. If he 
feels that lit* or his family are in danger, 
he can give up the job. but I hardly 
think that he is bound to proclaim to 
the world why he does so. Still if he 
firmly believes that the milk from these 
cows is dangerous to people in general 
who may use it. he might be justified in 
making the matter public. J. 
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