Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-07
THE FARM AND HOME.
THE SYMPTOMS OF TuBERcU-
LOSS IN COWS.
Dangerous Prevalence Of the Disea'e
and Measures for Its Eradication
Artiehokes for HoEs-Farm Netrs and
Home Hints
rnhercuIe.l. Ia cows.

/ name is given to this disease rom
| the fact that the various vital organs
implicated are gradually consumed
By germ that lives al the expense
of the tissue, and changes il into
/ degraded, cheesy, dead matter, which,
being gathered into small or larger
knots or tubercles, gives reason for
/ the scientific name OF the disease
/ tuberculosis.
Ii is a common belief that thls dis
case affects only the lungs OF an ami
NAL or person. The truth is quite
/ otherwise. II may invade any part
/ OF the body; the lungs, or their
Serious covering, the pleurp, by
which not only the Lungs but the
whole cavity OF the chest is covered,
I and which is frequent seat Of dis
/ ease: the membrane supporting the
/ bowels. THE me,enteryl, the coats
| OF the bowels, the throat, the spleen.
/ the liver, the pancreas, the kidneys.
/ the Ovaries. sometimes the muscles,
I and frequently the soft ends ~ the
I bones. In female animals the mann
mary glands. the udder as il is com
monty known is a frequent seat Ot
the disease.
Cattle are more subject 10 this dis.
/ ease than other animals, writes
Henry Stuart in CoImans Rural
World Sheep and swine are the
next In order q, subsection and
fowls follow after these, but these
last mentioned rarely suffer except
I from Infection by swallowing the
I elected matter from tine patients %
/ hospitals OF persons diseased In prt-
+ yatc houses that has been thrown
\ out where the fowls can pick itup
Tho use Of the milk Of tubercuiOsed
I cows. especially when the udder or
I the oyaries are the seat Of the dis.
Y ease. has been the most effective
means % communication. And IL
Z has been observed with the utmost
/ interest by statisticiaus and physi-
7 cians that the deaths Ot infants by
\ consumption have been greatly iu-
creased since the more general adop-
/ ton Of cows milk for their food
There are some cows that seem 10
have natural predisposition % tu.
I bercuiosis. This is due, doubtless.
/ to inherited conditions. 81 which
\ these peculiar features have been
caused such as the long legs. the
/ narrow chest, the thin, long neck.
narrow forehead, and the scui-fruns-
I lucent ears. with a stlSy sOftuess ~
I the hair aud thiHncss Oi tho skin. aIl
\ Of these dcnoting weakness Or con4,i.
/ tuition. And with these there is
I copious dow 81 milk. thin and BLUSH
+ Ia color and poor in fats such an
/ animal having any local Inflammation
+ sot up from whatever cause becomes
i the easy subject Of attack and the
ready victim 90 the best This nat.
ural predispositiOu may b. set in az.
/ ton By various causes that are coin.
! mon TO dairies either not well man
aged or carried on under method by
/ which the COWS are oyer-stimulated
by high feeding 70 procure increased
+ product The system gives way un.
4 der either condition, and the disease
attacks the herd IN the most insid.
/ ious manner. Thus the high-braa
COWS. bred toocIoseIy, 20 that weak
constitution is inherited. as we'll az
I the town slop TEL lords IN their
/ wretchcd, noisome stables, fall vtc
4 Tins to the disease.
i The first symptoms Of the dtsca -
/ are easily apparent Indeed, some
/ Of the worst eases have occurred in
dairies where the owner could
scarcely be convinced ~ the truth or
the announcement Of tho veterinarian
/ until the pOst.mDrtem examination
4 By which the diseased organs were
I plainly cOrrobOrative OF the diagnosis.
+ The sick animals may be- III the high
est condition, as easily as I'll tho
lowest. The symptoms vary a. the
seat Of the disease may he cough
and the peculiar mawkish odo- Of
/ tho breath. quite different from the
4 healthy respiration, and the dis.
! tnrbed breathing. disclose the fact
i that the lungs are effected The
/ proiuse diarrhea, with general
] evacuation, dullness. large. OK
ceedingly bright eyes dryncss Of The
nose, and apparent fever and rand
] pulse, indicate that tho bowels are
the scat Of the disorder. Whom the
/ throat is at ected the glands are
enlarged, and the dry cough slight,
| and seldom noticed. except bv tho
watchful attendant. afford the testi.
mony TO the fact Tho unnatural
desire for the company 81 the
male indicates the disease TO be
| in the Oyaries, in which
case the milk glands usually are in.
volyed and the milk is wholly unfit
for use. Sometimes the disease ap.
pears as swellings 81 the Joints and
laneness. But in all cases the nd
vance OF the disease is accompanied
by the most conspicuous manifesto
ton Of approaching death. The
eyes lose their brilliance. and sink IL
their sockets the cheeks fall In the
nose is quite dry and pinched in at
the nostrils; the breath is hurried.
and every inspiration produces hcav-
ing Of the Hanks and distress: the
body moves with the action OF tho
lungs. and the carcass becomes thin
/ 4 L. Z i a. Il