Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-06-14
AGRICULTURAL WORLD
Matters Worthy of Careful
Consideration.
TUBERCULOSIS PRECAUTIONS

Suggestions as to Preventive Measures
for Adoption by Stock Owners-They
Can Extirpate This Disease From
Their Herds and Keep Them Pure.
In bulletin on tuberculosis in rela-
ton to animal industry and public health
DR.. James Law of Cornell University,
Ithaca, n. Y, makes the following sug-
gestions as to preventive measures for
adoption 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 contami-
nation. The following are the main pre-
cautions 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.
2. Keep each animal strictly to its own
stall and manger.
8. When any animal is suspected don't
let it use drinking trough nor bucket
in common with other animals.
| 4. Avoid old milch cows and unthrifty
ones, or keep them secluded from the
rest of the herd.
5. The following conformation usually
indicates a weakness of constitution and
susceptibility to tuberculosis: Head
narrow between the horns, sunken eyes,
depth OF cavity (temporaD back OF the
eyes, thin, narrow, eve neck, chest small
lacking 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 variety OF colors, an
| imals 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 Shorthorns, Devons, Holsteins, black
or red poiled, furnish no protection in
the presence OF the germ.
8. Don't purchase from herd in which
tuberculosis has appeared, or in which
cattle have died or been killed within a
year or two. Resort first to the tuber-
culin test.
7. Don't take COW with husky OF
rattling cough, wheeling, hurried breath
ing, discharge from nose, fGtid breath
hard punches under the skin, diseased
udder, swollen bones or joints, unthrift'
mess or tendency to scour or bloat.
s. Don't purchase from city, suburban
nor swill stables.
9. Don't add newly purchased cattle tc
your herd until you have tested them
with tuberculin, especially if they have
been the product of inbreeding.
10. Don't 'tadmit strange cattle to house
field nor yard with your own; keep them
apart until tested with tuberculin.
IL. In case of disease or unthriftiness
in your herd put the animal apart and
have it examined by skilled veterina.
rian.
IL. If after this there remains any
doubt as to the real nature of the dis
ease, have the animal tested with the
tuberculin in the hands of a practitioner
thoroughly acquainted with cattle anC
their diseases. If the result is not quite
clear, keep the animal by itself and re-
peat the test in four weeks.
Is. In case one animal in herd show.
tuberculosis, test the whole herd witt
tuberculin.
IA. Test in the same manner all ami
mails on the farm (swine, goats, sheep
horses, rabbits, cats, dogs, fowls) tina
cohabit with the cattle.
Is. Kill all tuberculous animals, ant
boil, burn, dissolve in acid or bury deep
ly in place to which no animals hav,
access.
IS. Disinfect premises thoroughly alst
all products of the diseased animals anC
all articles used about them.
II. Let no consumptive person attent
on cattle or other live stock, nor prepar,
their food.
IS. Virmin (rats, mice, sparrows) in ,
building where tuberculosis animals
have been should be exterminated.