American Agriculturist, August 16, 1924 
TB From a Breeder’s Standpoint 
A Hard Road, But Worth While 
134,143 
S3 
1918 
Editor’s Note. — This very interesting 
article zvas read by Mr. Hartshorn at the 
recent Eastern States Conference, in Albany, 
on Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis. 
1 AM asked to-day to discuss the subject 
of tuberculosis eradication from a 
breeder’s standpoint-. I am glad to discuss 
this question from that point of view, for 
although I have had much to do with the 
subject as an official of different Agricul¬ 
tural organizations yet my real knowledge 
and experience has been as a breeder and 
dairyman, and from this experience, 
broadened possibly by these various 
contacts, I wish to give to you a few im¬ 
pressions and conclusions which have 
presented themselves to me. 
As this subject presents itself to the 
breeder and dairyman many questions 
arise in his mind. First: Is bovine 
tuberculosis as dangerous and insidious 
a disease as many would have us think? 
This question for many years was a very 
serious one but most people have come to 
recognize not only the great financial 
loss sustained on account 
of it but they also realize 
that it is a great menace 
to the health of the 
human family. After the 
first question is answered 
the dairyman then asks 
himself: “How am I to 
rid my herd of this dread 
disease and can I do so 
without financially crip¬ 
pling myself?” In 
answering this question 
we are brought face to 
face with the whole pro¬ 
gram of bovine tuber¬ 
culosis eradication and 
the dairyman is then con¬ 
fronted with far more 
perplexing problems than 
confronted him when he 
asked himself the first 
question. He wonders if 
signing the Accredited 
Herd contract and hav¬ 
ing his herd tested will 
free it of the disease. 
Will he receive pay for 
his reacting cattle so 
that he can go on with his business, or 
will he be forced out of business if a large 
percentage of them react? "W ill he receive 
fair and honorable treatment from those 
who have the work in charge? Are they 
men who are anxious to clean up the 
disease or are they merely trying to hold 
down a job? Will they cooperate with 
him in his attempt to free his herd of the 
pest or will they treat him as I was 
treated years ago before the Accredited 
Herd plan was adopted? 
An Overbearing Attitude 
I had a reacting bull and two men 
were sent to my place, costing twice the 
necessary expense to the State, to see 
how I was keeping that bull, and when 
they arrived it was with an atmosphere of 
authority that made me almost wonder 
if I even owned the farm, to say nothing 
of the bull himself. I speak of this for I 
am convinced that the success of bovine 
tuberculosis eradication depends very 
largely on the cooperation and spirit of 
helpfulness on the part of dairymen, 
veterinarians, officials—and I might also 
add the Farm Bureau, for I am thor¬ 
oughly convinced that the Farm Bureau 
is the machine which should be used very 
largely for the carrying on of the work. 
I am glad to state that since the 
Accredited Herd plan was adopted in this 
State there has existed a splendid spirit 
and the work has progressed far better 
than our most sanguine expectations, and 
I wish to take this opportunity to thank 
those who have had the work in charge 
for their interest and cooperation. 
We often hear the question asked: 
“What is the Farm Bureau’s part in this 
work of bovine tuberculosis eradication?” 
1 wish to take the most of the time 
A. A. HARTSHORN the work. I have very definite ideas 
as to the best method of financing the 
remaining to me in discussing this ques- work, and the reason I have those ideas is 
tion which I believe to be most vital and because it is working out so satisfac- 
important to the work. We are living in torily in our own County but there are 
an age of machinery and before we at- other counties that are doing well who 
tempt any large piece of work we install have other systems that feel that they 
the proper machinery adapted to that could not adopt our plan and succeed, 
work. An organization is merely a Now it would be very unwise to try to 
force them to change just as it would be 
almost ruinous to the work in our County 
to force us to adopt their plan. 
I will, however, give some of the reasons 
I believe in our method,—not that I wish 
others to follow but that you may see 
the course of reasoning through which 
we passed in adopting our present plan. 
We have a committee of three appointed 
from the membership of our Farm Bureau 
and they, acting together with the Presi¬ 
dent and Manager, have the work in 
charge. They hire a veterinarian that is 
approved by the State and Federal 
Government and every one who has his 
herd tested pays one dollar per head for 
machine to perform certain kinds of work. 
How the Farm Bureau Helps 
The Farm Bureau was organized 
primarily for the benefit of the farmer, 
but it is supported by the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment, State, and County. Conse¬ 
quently the work it does should benefit 
not only the farmer but also the public, 
for they are taxed for its support. The 
eradication of tuberculosis is just that 
kind of work and not only that, but the 
Federal Government, State and County, 
are supervising the work. Consequently 
no organization is as well fitted for 
carrying op the work as is the Farm 
CATTLE TUBERCULIN-TESTED ANNUALLY IN THE UNITED 
STATES UNDER THE SYSTEMATIC PLAN FOR 
TUBERCULOSIS ERADICATION, 1918-1923 
329,978 
‘ Why do we be- 
financing the 
r?” 
1919 
1920 
1921 
Bureau. It is the tendency of the times the first ten and fifty cents per head lor 
all over that number. 
This cares for his herd 
for one year. i 
Now the question 
arises,— 
lieve in 
work in this way 
First of all, if any man 
is not interested enough^, 
to pay that amount he 
hasn’t sufficient interest 
to be of any benefit to 
the Accredited Herd 
movement,—in fact we 
are better off without 
him. For what a man 
gets for nothing he is apt 
to place at the same 
value. Another very im¬ 
portant feature of this 
matter is that our funds 
always correspond to the 
amount of work that is 
being done and the inter¬ 
est that is manifested. 
While if a Board of Su¬ 
pervisors appropriated 
the funds, the year 
when the farmers were 
to start a new organization as soon as we much interested there might be a stingy 
have a new piece of work to do when or disinterested Board of Supervisors and 
perhaps, as in this case we already have a consequently have a small and inadequate 
machine far better adapted to the work appropriation and another year the 
1,366,358 2,384,236 ^ 3,460,849 
1922 
1923 
Increase in the size of these cows from year to year indicates 
increase in sentiments favoring Tuberculosis Eradication 
opposite condition might be true. But 
the most important reason we believe in 
this method is the fact that everyone is 
served alike year after year. Nothing 
will breed dissatisfaction and discord 
quicker than a continual changing of cost 
of getting a test. I fancy I hear someone 
say that we could not carry on the work 
without its being financed by the Boardjof 
Supervisors. If this is true, a radical 
change would be unwise, as I have just 
said. 
The Danger of Politics 
Another great evil which we felt 
threatened the appropriation plan is the 
fact that politics are so apt to enter in 
and of all the dangers that ever threatened 
the Accredited Herd plan this is one of the 
greatest, for when politics to any great 
extent comes in efficiency and accom¬ 
plishment go out. 
It was the fear of this threatening 
dinate, harmonize and make more effi- danger thatmade many of us very cautious 
and backward in endorsing the Accreditee 
Herd movement. I am very glad that so 
far this element has not entered in anc 
than anything we can build. If we con¬ 
tinue the forming of so many organiza¬ 
tions it will not be long before many of 
them will have to go to the junk heap. 
We have no right to form an organization 
whose service does not far exceed the 
cost of its building. 
I am convinced after close observation 
that a committee of three with a good, 
efficient chairman acting in cooperation 
with the Farm Bureau President and 
Manager can handle the work very 
efficiently and satisfactorily. I also very 
firmly believe that if the States doing 
tuberculosis eradication work would ap¬ 
point a committee from their State 
Federation and also if a tuberculosis 
eradication Committee be appointed 
by the National Federation of Farm 
Bureaus to cooperate with the national 
and State authorities and the County 
' committees that the result would be to 
greatly strengthen them, unify, coor- 
cient the work. 
Go Slow on Changes 
Where the work in a County is moving 
on smoothly and satisfactorily any change 
should be made very cautiously and if 
that County has an organization separate 
from the Farm Bureau I think it might 
not be wise to make a change, but they 
can report and w r ork through the State 
Committee just as well as they could 
through a separate State organization. 
In fact it is ruinous to the work to make 
radical changes not only in organization 
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