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SICK OR BACKWARD COWS 
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that result from sick cows and disappointing 
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The cow’s winter diet is hard on her di¬ 
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Overfeeding of rich concentrates only ag¬ 
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Ingdale, Ill.. 
*T had three cows this 
Spring, one had garget, 
one had milk fever, and one 
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American Agriculturist, February 24,192,3 
The Accredited Herd Plan 
Our First Experience With Reactors 
TUBERCULOSIS MUST 
CONTROLLED 
TF you are not reading Mr. Babcock's 
articles giving his personal experi¬ 
ences with cattle tuberculosis, you are 
missing the most valuable and most in¬ 
teresting discussion of this great prob¬ 
lem that has been published. These 
articles hre written from the standpoint 
of a farmer and owner of cattle and not 
from that of the veterinarian or Gov¬ 
ernment official. Mr. Babcock has ex¬ 
pressed the feeling of a man who sees 
the struggles of years in building a 
herd, end in the disappointment of 
failure because of this terrible disease. 
There has been considerable written 
of late on the T. B. situation. There 
should be. If dairying is to endure, cat¬ 
tle tuberculosis must be controlled.— 
The Editor. 
T SIGNED up my 
X first herd of mixed 
grades and purebreds to be tested 
under the accredited herd plan because 
I had decided to keep a purebred herd 
in the future. I ,figured then, and I 
still believe, that a purebred herd in¬ 
fected with tuberculosis is a very 
doubtful asset. 
I adopted the accredited herd plan 
for two reasons: first, I could get larger 
indemnities should my cattle react; 
and, second, I would receive a Federal 
certificate allowing me to ship any¬ 
where in the United States when finally 
I had a clean herd. I felt this certifi¬ 
cate would be 
very valuable in 
advertising. -- 
Soon after I 
signed up, a fed¬ 
erally employed 
veterinarian came 
without cost to 
me to make the 
test. Several 
cows, mostly 
grades, reacted. 
He branded these 
with a T on the 
jaw, and we were 
ordered to segre- 
gate them — 
which was phy¬ 
sically impossi¬ 
ble for us to do. 
In time an ap¬ 
praiser came and 
set his values, 
and the cattle 
were slaughtered. 
The salvage — 
beef was high - 
then—and the in- —————— 
demnities paid 
us well for the animals we had lost. 
We gave the barn and yard a little 
brushing up, sprayed a little disinfec¬ 
tant around, and congratulated our¬ 
selves on a job well done. We were 
free from tuberculosis. 
More Reactors on Second Test 
From time to time during the next 
six months we bought in purebreds. 
In all cases we required them to be 
tested. Then came our second test. 
Like the first tuberculin test of my ex¬ 
perience, I shall never forget it. It 
seemed that every purebred cow that 
was worth more than $250 reacted. 
The interdermal method was used in 
testing, and I can see to-day those 
tell-tale swellings! 
What had happened was this: The 
first test had undoubtedly left a bad 
spreader in the herd. Our clean-up 
had not been thorough enough. We had 
not exercised enough care in the pur¬ 
chase of our replacements. The result 
was disastrous to us. We had lost the 
state and federal money that had 
been spent to help us. And all because 
fundamentals had been lost sight of. 
This case of ours is typical; hundreds 
have had the same experience. 
The Man Who Controls Tuberculosis 
There is only one man who can elimi¬ 
nate tuberculosis from a herd of cattle. 
He is the man who controls the herd. 
In this fact lies, or should lie, the 
fundamental of any plan to combat 
the disease. 
At best all that- the accredited herd 
plan—or any other plan—can do is to 
supplement and make easy the work 
of the cattle owner. As originally laid 
out, the accredited herd plan was de¬ 
signed to help the man who desired 
and possessed the ability to fight the 
disease in his own herd and to give 
him official recognition when he had 
accomplished the job. 
. A Good Plan Gone Wrong 
The whole plan was to be an agree¬ 
ment between the owner and the state 
and federal authorities covering a 
method of procedure. As worked out 
in practice, the plan has become the 
vehicle of well-meaning but mistaken 
officials who have put the cart before 
the horse. They have made the mis¬ 
take—natural, from their viewpoint-j- 
of believing that bovine tuberculosis is 
eliminated by the activities of state 
and federal officials, by legislative ap¬ 
propriations, and by area operations, 
By H. E. BABCOCK 
BE 
instead of by the most 
careful and painstak¬ 
ing work upon the part of intelligent 
cattle owners. 
It is time the cattle owner had some¬ 
thing to say. New York State is for¬ 
tunate in having a man who knows 
cattle at the head of its Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry. It is not so fortunate in 
its federal tie-up. Official Washington 
tries to dominate. Official Washington 
is usually miles in the air; it makes its 
rules and regulations; it compiles its 
data, and it issues official reports that 
show astounding totals. In its conduct 
of the accredited herd plan, the United 
States Bureau of 
Animal Industry 
has proved no 
exception to the 
general rule. 
The accredited 
herd plan, as 
anyone knows 
who has been 
through the game, 
depends on the 
cooperation of the 
cattle owner. 
This cooperation 
depends on h ifs 
desire and abil¬ 
ity. Desire may 
be stimulated by 
liberal indemni¬ 
ties, but ability is 
not ^ universal 
possession. It 
does not exist in 
areas; it is not 
developed by 
charity. 
- Some men can 
rid their herds of 
tuberculosis. Oth¬ 
ers never can. The men who can, 
should demand that indemnity money 
be reserved to help them. A lot of 
money is going to pay indemnities to 
owners who have neither the intention, 
nor the understanding of the disease, 
to control tuberculosis. Here lies the 
danger of the present system of testing 
under the accredited herd plan. Mean¬ 
while totals are piling up, the public is 
becoming restive, an,d a lot of good 
men are without the government help 
to which they are entitled. 
The situation is dangerous. The one 
group which can safeguard it is the 
owners of accredited herds. These are 
the^men who know what is involved. 
They are the ones who want to insure 
the continuation of accredited herd 
work. With them it is not a matter of 
indemnities or areas, but of the protec¬ 
tion of a system. They at least should 
be consulted more than they are. 
JANUARY POOL PRICE 2.28'/2 
The Dairymen’s League Cooperative 
Association announces $2,281^ a hun¬ 
dred as its gross pool price for the 
month of January. Prom this 7% cents 
per hundred are deducted by the Asso¬ 
ciation for expenses of administration 
and advertising, and 10 cents a hundred 
are borrowed by the Association on its 
Certificate of Indebtedness plan. This 
leaves a net cash price to farmers for 
January milk of $2.11. This is the 
base price for milk containing 3 per 
cent butterfat in the 201-210-mik 
freight zone from New York City. 
The gross price paid by the League 
for December milk was $2.82 a hun¬ 
dred. From that price 7 cents a hun¬ 
dred were deducted for expenses auj 
20 cents borrowed on Certificates of 
Indebtedness. 
“As A Man Thinketh,j 
So Is He” 
(Continued from page 161) 
Then, too, taxes are too high; people 
are overworked trying to make ends 
meet, and can not do so. In the old 
days we were satisfied with less of the 
things that we now seem to reqtnre- 
The more we have, the more we want 
but we have to pay well for all tha 
we get now-a-days. As a result 
this striving for more and more of the 
worM’s goods, there is no time w’- 
