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tine against diseased animals, would in due time accomplish the 
desired results. But the enforcement of such radical measures, 
with the opposition they would meet, is nothing short of an 
impossibility. It will be necessary to inaugurate a long, tedious 
campaign of education with literature such as this society in¬ 
tends to distribute. The owners of tuberculous herds must be 
shown the fallacy of harboring diseased animals. They must 
be taught that the adoption of certain sanitary measures, easily 
within their reach, will eventually result in the elimination of 
tuberculosis as well as other diseases from their farms and dai¬ 
ries. The process will be slow but sure and at least profitable 
to them. 
In this campaign the veterinarian meets with the same bar¬ 
rier as the medical profession in that the owners of livestock do 
not recognize their danger. Acute contagious diseases which 
abort or kill rapidly arouses them, but slow, chronic and occult 
conditions, such as tuberculosis, do not awaken the least fear. 
The work will therefore be complicated and tedious, and 
the Chicago Veterinary Society directs me to offer this new asso¬ 
ciation its earnest and energetic collaboration. 
In conclusion, I wish to present the following summary of 
the points we are prepared to demonstrate, and upon which we 
wish to act :— 
1. That the tuberculin test for bovine tuberculosis is suffi¬ 
ciently reliable to be practical. 
2 . That the sale of milk from tuberculous cows should be 
absolutely prohibited, and that the apparent absence of tuber¬ 
culous processes in a cow’s mammae is not an assurance of non- 
infectious milk. 
3. That tuberculosis is raging among the dairies supplying 
Chicago with milk, and that the population of Chicago is being 
infected with tuberculosis through its milk supply. 
4. That a proper veterinary inspection of the dairies will 
eventually result in purifying the supply, and that such inspec¬ 
tion can be conducted at very small public expense. 
5. That the work should be directly under the control 
