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A. S. HEATH. 
In France the percentage of this disease was only one-half of 
one per cent. And in the Cotentin breed of Normandy, where 
no tuberculosis is found, our Minister of Agriculture of the 
United States refused to indicate to President Cleveland that 
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these grand French cattle were free from tuberculosis. So that 
these cattle, hardy and hopeful helps to breed out the disease,, 
are now excluded from importation. These large, hardy, healthy 
animals should be largely imported, free from duty, to grade up 
our healthy herds, so that dairy and meat products might be 
largely increased in quantity and quality of products of supe¬ 
rior excellence, far surpassing those of gur own herds. Thus, in¬ 
stead of keeping small, tuberculously-infected cows for meat and 
dairy products, we could secure grades two or even three times 
the size, yielding products relatively larger and better. For 
foundation stock, our healthy and hardy herds are eminently 
fitted to speedily increase the values of our dairy and beef herds. 
With our wise reciprocity regulations with our neighboring South 
American States, all of our surplus products would 6nd a remun¬ 
erative market, thus happily replenishing our too sadly de¬ 
pleted treasury, and supplying herds of superlative stock for 
the improvement of those of our neighbors. 
The tuberculous bacilli seek by preference the lymphatic 
system, either in the lymphatic glands or in the loose connective 
tissues forming the lymphatic networks leading to these glands. 
Thus the breeds that have been inbred for profuse glandiilar 
functions, as milk-yielders, are those most susceptible to the 
lodgment of the infecting germs of tuberculosis. Many families 
of those having large milk glands and who are large milk 
yielders have suffered so extensively that their owners have lost 
the larger part of their herds, besides their loss of product and 
reputations. And many have had their entire herds destroyed 
by compulsory slaughter or dispersion. Yet many of these dairy¬ 
men thus afflicted, resist every hopeful method of repairing or 
replenishing the herds by rational selection of healthy stock, or 
by breeding from animals free from disease or susceptibility to 
disease. 
