30 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
this question to-day is quite different from that which it has 
been at certain periods in the last fifteen years. It is true that 
at the present. time there is not an absolute consensus of 
of opinion, but differences of opinion are, to a certain extent, 
disappearing, and at the present time it may be stated that we 
are approaching somewhat slowly toward a general consensus 
of belief upon the ‘matter. The statements which will be 
given in the following paragraphs are as closely as possible 
in accordance with the general results and the general belief 
as they are held at the present time. 
In the first place, we notice that there is as yet no evidence 
that the disease is carried from cattle to man by means of the 
germs which are coughed up from the lungs and exhaled ad- 
hering to particles of moisture, as already described, nor is 
there any evidence that man obtains the disease by breathing 
the dust which comes from cattle in any form. While we have 
no such direct evidence, this by no means indicates that such 
infection may not occur. From the very conditions of things, 
if such infection did occur it would Be practically impossible to 
prove it, so that we must not regard this negative evidence as 
of much importance. If the disease is transmitted from animal 
to animal by the moisture of the breath there would seem to be 
an equally good chance for its being transported from animal 
to man. 
Transnussion by Flesh. Tuberculous Meat.——There has been 
a large amount of investigation in connection with the possi- 
bility and the probability of tuberculosis being carried from 
animal to man in the flesh of the animal used as food. A 
very large amount of experiment in this connection has 
been carried on in the last fifteen years. These experiments 
have in large degree consisted in the feeding tuberculous 
flesh to animals which are known to be subject to the disease, 
and then the noticing whether such consumption of tuber- 
culous flesh produces tuberculosis in the animals thus fed. 
The result of these experiments has been conclusive enough. 
While it does not always happen that tuberculosis will follow 
the eating of tuberculous material by such animals, it has 
resulted in a sufficient number of cases to show beyond per- 
adventure that this disease may be transmitted by the flesh 
of animals suffering from the disease. 
Tn spite of these results the studies and investigations of 
the last few years have been very rapidly but very conclusively 
