News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-19
TUBERCULOSIS.
PRECAUTIONS WHICH SHOULD BE TAKEN
BY DAIRYNIEN AND STOCK OWNERS.

BY DAIRYMEN AND STOCK oNNEks-
The following suggestions are made
by DIR. James Law, of Cornell Uni
veTsity, Ithaca, n. Y, in a bulletin
on tuberculosis in relation to animal
industry and public health, as to
preventive measures for adoption by
the stock owner
If he will the stock owner can extir-
pate this disease from his herd and
thereafter keep the herd pure from
such contamination. The following
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.
3. When an animal is suspected
don't letit use drinking trough nor
bucket in common with other ami
mails.
4. Avoid old mich cows and un-
thrifty ones, or keep them excluded
from the rest OF the nero.
5. The conformation here describ-
ed usually indicates a weakness of
constitution and a susceptibility to
tuberculosis Head narrow between
the horns, sunken eyes, depth OF cav
ity (temporan back of the eyes, thin,
narrow eve neck, chest small, lacking
in both breadth and depth, hollow
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, 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 conformations 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
tuberculosis has appeard or in which
cattle have died or been killed within
a year or two. Resort first to the
tuberculin test.
Z. Don't take a COW with husky
or rattling cough, wheeling, hurried
breathing, discharge from nose, fetid
breath, hard punches under the skin,
diseased udder, swollen bones or
Joints, unthriftiness or a tendency to
scour or bloat.
8. Don't buy from city, suburban
or swill stables.
8. Don't add newly bought cattle
to your herd until you have tested
them with tuberculin, especially if
they have been the product of inbreed-
ing.
10. Don't admit strange cattle to
house, field or yard with your own;
keep them apart until tested with
tuherculin.
IL. In cases of disease or unthrift-
mess in your herd put the animal
apart and have it examined by a
skilled veterinarian.
IL. 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 a 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.
13. In case one animal in a herd
shows tuberculosis, test the whole
herd with tuberculin.
Ia. 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 tuberculous ami
mails and boil, burn, dissolve in acid
or bury deeply in place to which
no animals have access.
16. Disinfect premises thoroughly,
also all products of the diseased ami.
mails and all articles used about them
II. Let no consumptive person at.
tend on cattle or other live stock MOI
prepare their food.
Is. Vermin, traits, mice, sparrows)
in building where tuberculosis ami
mails have been should be extermi
mated.