Thomas County cat., 1889-08-29
DISEASES OF COWS.


| DISEASES OF COWS.
Various ways in which They Are Trans.
nistsd 10 the Human Family.
There are inherent diseases of man
kind. and there are similar ailments In
the bovine family. We can avoid them
and keep the blood of the dairy free
from their transmission by not breed
ing from afflicted animals I saw q
fine cow the other day 80 badly afflicted
with garget that she was useless for
milk, and likely to be for the rest of
the season. Her owner, with unpar-
donable short-sightedness, was using
her as breeder for replenishing his
dairy. In another case q man was
milking COW which had humorous
aftiiction. and was also breeding from
her. Ii we were to 60 into some loath-
some, underground stable in q city
like New York We should not be sur
prised at meeting such sickly animals,
but to view the like in a clean country
barn was staggering blow to our
| faith in the sanity of some men. As
dairy product consumers. we are in a
certain sense at the mercy Of the hy-
gienic condition of the kline, and it i'm
peratively behooves all who care for
preservation of health to eradicate all
dangers.
In the present age there seems to be
a multiplicity of human ailments. We
get tape worms from eating diseased
beef; increase of cancers from inherit
ance and unknown acquisitions, and tu-
| mors. protuberances and excrescences
from cysts in our daily food. I do not
wish to infer that the hot-bed of such
human diseases is all In bad cows
milk, but do take the stand that milk
is far more responsible agent in the
premises than most people are aware
of. A sound, healthy COW. generating
milk from sound, healthy food. is q
blessing to mankind wherever she ex-
lists. The bulk of them are such. but
there is minority mingled through
! the whole that should be weeded out
Take for instance gargety COWS. There
is hardly dairy but has COW or cows
whose lacteal ducts are clogged with
| this stringy result of disease. Frugal
dairymen consider it economy to save
the milk from such animals, although
they must know. if they pause for a
moment to consider. that it is impreg-
mated with a viscid substance detri-
| mental to the health of consumers.
The milk from many cows commingled
together is open to suspicion for fam
lily use. The amount of milk con-
sumed in this country In an unmanu-
factured state is enormous. 1t is
constituent of the food on every table.
and plays an important part in nour-
ishing the human organism. Fathers.
when you provide milk for your chill
dren. remember that it is an animal
secretion, not a vegetable growth, and
as such is liable to all infection of a
nitrogenous nature If you buy your
! milk, know if possible that the milk
| mans COWS are not diseased. Find out
what he feeds them. Investigate the
quality of the water that they drink
and see if it is stagnant or unwhole-
some.
Do not consider such caution more
foolish and unnecessary than that
which you exercise at the meat mar
ket in selecting untainted beef We
know not how many impurities Of
blood can be traced back to impure
milk. Chemistry tells us that the inn
purities exist in the lacteal structure.
and physiology teaches us that as 1t
performs its nutritive Office in build
ing up flesh and bone, the disease
germs, if any. that it contains are
very liable to incorporate themselves
into the living organism to which
they have been thus introduced. Moth
ers who bring up their babes on a bot
tie should be satisfied that they are
not sucking their offsprings on duids
better for . swill-tub. Farmers. do
not breed from any COW not physical
ly sound, then there will be decrease
instead of an increase Of animal prod
ucts prejudicial to human health. II
you possess large dairy. or for that
matter a small one, always save the
milk from one good COW for family
use.-George E. Newell, in Ohio
Farmer.