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IV. The remaining reacting animals are carefully separated from the 
healthy animals by removing them to some distant isolated paddock. 
V. On large estates it is recommended that a separate set of attendants 
should look after the cattle for each division. 
VI. Where, however, one man milks and cares for all the cows, he 
should serve the sound division first; then he changes his shoes and 
outer garments for special clothing used only in the diseased 
division. 
VII. The sheds and stalls occupied by the cattle in both divisions are 
cleaned and disinfected as follows :— 
(z) All manure and litter is removed out of reach of the cattle and 
burned, or treated in such a way that, by spreading it in a thin 
layer over cultivated land, the sun’s rays can exert their 
germicidal influence. 
(2) The entire interior of the buildings is disinfected by means of 
| spraying, or washing with a large brush with the following 
mixture :—1 oz. of corrosive sublimate (bichloride of mercury) to 
8 gallons of water. After disinfecting the interior and edges of 
the mangers, they should be washed with water. 
(c) After an interval of a few days all the woodwork, ineludin 
partitions, stanchions, walls, and ceilings are whitewashed, the 
mixture containing in every 4 gallons 1 lb. of chloride lime and 
$-oz. of corrosive sublimate. 
VIII. All calves born of reacting mothers should at once be put into 
the healthy division before they get a chance to suckle their 
mothers, and can be fed either on the milk of the guaranteed. 
healthy cows, or with milk from their own mothers—but only after 
it has been heated up to a temperature of 190 degrees Fahr. for 30 
minutes. 
IX. When any animal in the reaeting or diseased division shows signs 
of sickness, it should be destroyed. 
X. No new animal should be introduced into the healthy division 
unless it has passed the tuberculin test. 
XT. Avoid breeding from very young or too old cows, as the offspring 
is apt to be weak and puny. : 
XII. No consumptive person should be allowed to work amongst the 
cattle or prepare their food. 
CONCLUSIONS 
By foilowing these rules, the unsound animals will be wiped out, but 
hardly before they have replenished the healthy divisions to its original 
dimensions. Of course if only a few animals are found tuberculous, it will not 
pay to go to the trouble and expense of keeping them as a separate herd; but 
when dealing with a considerable number of valuable prize animals, whose 
qualities are worth propagating, it will undoubtedly pay, as demonstrated by 
several authorities, to adopt the above method. 
It is simply a question of which is the cheaper course in the end—to try 
and raise a sound herd from an unsound one by observing rigid rules, or to 
get rid of all the tuberculous animals at once. Each stud-breeder or dairy- 
farmer must determine this for himself, and in doing so must not overlook the 
fact that heredity and predisposition are mere minor factors in the production 
of tuberculosis. 
FRAUDULENT PRACTICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE TUBERCULIN TEST, 
To those who have devoted several years in watching the practical working 
of the test, it was quite easy to see how readily frauds might be and, in fact, 
have been perpetrated by evil-disposed persons, and it is only right, in my 
opinion, that the method of working these frauds should be exposed. 
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