St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-07-26
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Precautions Which Should be Taken by
Dafrymen and Stock Owners.

The following suggestions are
made by DIR. James Law, of Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y, in a bulle-
tin on tuberculosis in relation to ami
NAL industry and public health, as
by the stock owner:
If he will the stock owner can ex-
tirpate this disease from his herd
and thereafter keep the herd pure
from such contamination. The fol-
lowing are the precautions necessary
to the end:
1. Board up the partitions of the
stalls at the front so that no two
COWS can feed from the same manger
nor lick each other.
2. Keep each animal strictly by its
own stall and manger.
8. When an animal is suspected
don't let it use a drinking trough
nor bucket in common with other
animals.
f. Avoid old mich COWS and I'M
thrifty ones, or keep them excluded
from the rest of the herd.
s. The conformation here describ-
ed usually indicates a weakness of
constitution and a susceptibility to
tuberculosis. Head narrow between
the horns, sunken ewes, depth of cav
ity (temporal) back of the eyes, thin,
narrow eve neck, chest small, lack
ing in both breadth and depth, hol-
low flank and tendency to pot belly,
a general lack of muscle, so that the
limbs seem loosely attached to the
body; in breeds that show a variety
of colors, animals of lighter shades
OF brown and yellow. If, however,
such animals are of high value for
the dairy and can be kept from in
fiction they need not be rejected.
The finest cOntOrmations of Short
horn, DevOns, Holsteins, black or
red Polled, furnish no protection in
the presence of the germ.
6. Don't buy from a herd in which
tubercuous has appeared or in
which cattle have died within a year
or two. Resort first to the tubercu-
lin test.
7. Don't take a cow with a hus-
ky or rafting cough, Wheeling, hur-
ried breathing, discharge from nose,
fetid breath, hard punches under the
skin, diseased udder, swollen bones
or joints, unthriftiness or tendency
to scour or bloat.
8. Don't buy from city, suburban
or swill stables.
9. Don't add newly bought cattle
to your herd until you have tested
them with tuberculin, especially if
they have been the product of in
breeding.
10. Don't admit strange cattle to
house, field or yard with your own;
keep them apart until tested with
tuberculin.
II. In cases of disease or unthrift-
mess in your herd put the animal
apart and have it examined by a
skilled veterinarian.
~. If after this there remains any
doubt as to the real nature of the
disease, have the animal tested with
the tuberculin in the hands of prac-
titioner thoroughly acquainted with
cattle and their diseases. If the re-
suit is not quite clear, keep the ami
NAL by itself and repeat the test in
four weeks.
10. In case one animal in a herd
shows tuberculosis, test the whole
herd with tubercul1n.
IL. Test in the same manner all
animals on the farm (swine, goats,
sheep, horses, rabbits, cats, dogs,
fowls) that co-habit with the cattle.
IS. Kill all the tuberculosis ami
mails, and boil, burn, dissolve in acid,
or bury deeply in place to which
no animals have access.
16. Disinfect premises thorough
ly, also all products of the diseased
animals and all articles used about
them.
II. Let no consumptive person
attend on cattle or other live stock
nor prepare their food.
10. Vermin, traits, mice, spar
rows in building where tubercu-
losis animals have been should be
extermlnated.