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American Agriculturist, February 17,1923 
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YOUR COWS- 
Have they udders like these? 
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Shall I Test? 
TB Eradication From a 
T WELL remember the By H. E. 
-L first time that I per¬ 
sonally realized that there was a 
tuberculosis question. I had bought 
three Guernsey two-year-olds for $600 
—mostly borrowed money—and in my 
greenness and excitement I had for¬ 
gotten to require that they be tuberculin 
tested. They were well bought and 
soon there came-un offer of $900 for 
the three, with the stipulation that 
they first pass the tuberculin test. 
I accepted the offer at chore time one 
night, and went to bed a happy boy to 
awaken along in the midnight hours 
with the terrible thought that perhaps 
my heifers would react. All night long 
I wrestled with that fear; a half dozen 
times I decided that I would never take 
the chance, only to whip myself into 
line again. 
The next day the veterinarian came. 
I did not let him out of my sight for 
a minute. I slept with, him on a pile 
of hay in the barn. I held thedantern 
for the readings. When the final tem¬ 
perature was recorded I was a nervous 
and physical wreck—but I had acquired 
a point of view toward the tuberculin 
Cattle Owner's Viewpoint 
BABCOCK Our best purebred 
markets are outside 
the State. All reliable public sales re¬ 
quire a tested animal, and some guaran¬ 
tee of 60-day retest; another reason 
for testing. Finally, so many pure¬ 
bred owners are striving for e’ean herds 
.there is little hope of selling untested 
purebreds even at private treaty. 
It is of little use to breed purebred 
animals for milk alone, bo under pres¬ 
ent conditions I believe that any pure¬ 
bred owner must test his herd or go out 
of business. We have tested our pure¬ 
breds. We found reactors. We now 
have clean herds. The testing cost us 
two years breeding progress and lost 
us some money, but we are glad we did 
it. It tvill pay in the long run! 
Not Practical to Test All Grade Herds 
On farms with grade herds T. B. 
testing has not been practical in all 
cases. It is not with us. 
One farm is located in a valley where, 
it is safe to say, 50 per cent of the 
cattle are tubercular. To test that 
herd would mean to lose it, and the 
income from it. Indemnities are too 
What is more discouraging than to spend years, perhaps a lifo time, 
building up a fine herd, only to find that they all react? 
test which has never left me. It is the 
point of view of the man whose busi¬ 
ness is'threatened; who awakens in the 
dead of night to toss and sweat over 
the pi’oblem of what to do with his herd. 
If, therefore, I sjem careless of the 
plans of governments and make light of 
statistics and the like, I hope it will not 
be misunderstood. I am looking at the 
problem from the angle of the man who 
owns the cattle. 
Shall I Test? 
As a cattle owner living in New York 
State this winter of 1923 I am face to 
face, if I have not already decided the 
question, with the problem; Shall I, or 
shall I not submit my herd to the 
tubercul® test? Probably my thoughts 
will be cwored by the conditions under 
which I farm. If I am the owner of 
purebred cattle I am constantly up 
against the demand for tuberculin 
tested animals. I cannot ship my ani¬ 
mals outside of the State unless they 
are tuberculin tested, nor can I put 
them in any of the better public sales. 
In fact, unless I am willing ,t> test, 
my purebred market is practically de¬ 
stroyed. On the oth«„r hand, if I am 
the owner of a grade herd, the tubercu¬ 
lin test has as yet made but little im¬ 
pression on the price of my cattle. 
It happens that since I tested those 
three Guernsey heifers—by the way, 
they did not react—I have acquired 
the management of several farms and 
in the course of operating these farms 
I Jiave tested over six hundred head 
of cattle. As these farms stand to-day 
they are typical of several conditions 
that dairy cattle owners face, and I 
shall therefore answer the T. B. test 
question as I have answered it in the 
management of these farms. 
The Case of the Purebred Farm 
On two farms we have purebred 
cattle. There seems to be but one 
answer to the test question on these 
farms. Yes, we shall test. Unless 
animals have passed a clean test they 
cannot he shipped into other States. 
low and too slow to use in buying re¬ 
placements. Furthermore, where could 
we go to buy clean replacements? 
There are hundreds of daiiymen in 
like situations. The milk from their 
farms is pasteurized. There is but lit¬ 
tle menace to the health of any ex¬ 
cept the young members of the farm 
family. A private test of one or two 
COWS'safeguards that. These badly in¬ 
fected herds of grade cattle should he 
left to the last; until there are plenty 
of clean replacements available and 
until the whole area can be cleaned, up 
at once. It does not pay to test them 
now. 
Another of our farms, stocked with 
grade cattle, is located in one of those 
rare sections where the T. B. test is 
required by the milk market. Here, of 
course, we test. We get more for our 
milk. It pays. 
On still another farm we have no 
dairy. We just keep a few so-called 
cows to eat up the roughage and make 
a little manure. Here we have not 
tested. I do not see why we should ever 
do so. There are hundreds of farms 
like this one. 
Test When It Pays 
Summarizing then, our experience in 
farm management has taught us to 
tuberculin test cows when it pays to 
do so. With purebred cattle it pays; 
when Special milk markets are available 
it pays; when we raise grades for sale 
it may pay. In the operation of an 
ordinary grade herd, however, it does 
not yet pay to test and it is likely to 
be years before it will. In fact, testing 
is a real handicap. 
So much for our own point of view. 
We have looked at the question in the 
light of practical experience. It is only 
fair that the varying conditions of cat¬ 
tle owners be considered when plans 
for bovine tuberculosis eradication are 
made. I intend to keep them to the 
fore in this series. The next article 
will deal with the fundamentals of the 
accredited herd plan as learned by ex¬ 
perience with it. 
