Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-07-06
tuberculosis.


lfechuilohs hhich should be Taken
by Dnirymen and stock Owners.
The following suggestions are made by
DR.. James Law, Of Cornell university,
Ithaca, y. Y, in bulletin on tuberculosis
in relation to animal industry and public
health, as to preventive measures for adop-
ton by the stock owner:
If he will the stock owner can extirpate
this disease from his herd and thereafter
keep the herd pure from such contamina-
ton. The following are the precautions
necessary to the end.
l. 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.
,. Keep each animal strictly by its own
stall and manger
3. When an animal is suspected don't
let it use drinking trough nor bucket in
common with other animals.
/. Avoid old milch cows and unthrifty
ones, or keep them secluded from the rest
of the herd.
,. The conformation here described usu-
ally indicates weakness of constitution and
a susceptibility to tuberculosis: Head mar
row between the horns, sunken eyes, depth
of cavity (tempora) back of the eyes, thin
narrow, eve neck, chest small, lacking in
both breadth and depth, hollow flank and
tendency to pot belly, general lack of
muscle, so that the limbs seem loosely at
tached 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 free from infection they need
not be rejected. The finest conformations
of Shorthom, Devons, IIolsteins, black or
ODD ,pll frr, f.I
presence of the germ.
u. Don I buy from a herd in which tu-
berculOsis has appeared or in which cattle
have died or been killed within year or
two. Resort first to the tuberculin test.
I. Don't take a COW with husky or
rafting cough, wheeling, hurried breath
ing, discharge from nose, fetid breath
hard punches under the skin, diseased
udder, swollen bones or joints, unthrifti-
ness or tendency to scour or bloat
;. Don't buy from city, suburban or
swill stables.
O. Don't add newly bought cattle to
your herd until you have tested them with
tuberculin, especially if they have been the
| pro luct of inbreeding.
10 Don't admit strange cattle to house,
field or yard with your own; keep them
apart until tested with tuberculin.
II. In case of disease or unthriftiness
in your herd put the animal apart and have
it examined by a skilled veterinarian.
II. Ii after this there remains any
| doubt as to the real nature of the disease,
have the animal tested with the tuberculn
in the hands of a practitonerthoroughly ac-
quainted with cattle and their diseases. If
the result is not quite clear, keep the ami
NAL by itself and repeat the test in four
weeks.
-. In case one animal in herd shows
tuberculosis, test the whole herd with tu-
berculin.
H. Test in the same manner all ami
mails on the farm Swine, goats. sheep,
horses, rabbits, cats dogs, fowls that CO.
habit with the cattle.
d. Kill all tuberculous animals and
| boil, burn, dissolve in acid. or bury deeply
in place to which no animals have access.
Ii. Disinfect premises thoroughly, also
all products of the diseased animals and all
articles used about them.
l.. Let no consumptiye person attend
on cattle or other live stock, nor prepare
their food.
Is Nermin (rats, mice, sparrows) in a
| building where tuberculosis animals have
been should be eNterminated.