St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-09
SIX TUBERCULOUs ANIMALS ARE
SLAUGHTERED AT EXPERI-
MENT FARM.
WHAT DISSECTION SHOWED,
TESTS WITH TUBERCULIN WAR,
RANTED THE KILLING IN
EVERY INSTANCE.
TWO WE'RE VERY BAD CASES,
Two Bad and Two MiId-POst.
MOrtem Watched by n Dis
tinguished Gathering.

Experiments made at the state ex-
perimental farm prove that animals
may look ever so handsome and
healthy, yet be infected with tuber-
culosis. They prove further that it
is not question of blood or breeds.
but of circumstances; that the best
looking animal in a herd may be
tuberculous; that dairy herds, from
which milk is supplied to the COM
munity, should be subject to COM
pulsory test; that any and every
part OF the cracass, except the hair
and horns, may become diseased, and
that the lymph known as tuberculin
is an almost infallible agent in de-
termining the presence of tubercu-
louS conditions.
The climax of the experiments
made the present year was reached
yesterday, when six animals were
slaughtered and dissected in the
presence of a large gathering of
doctors, veterinarians, breeders,
dairymen, butchers and newspaper
men. DR.. Reynolds, veterinarian of
the government experiment station,
directed the work, and the dissect-
ing was done by Drs. Price, Cotton,
Ltifert and Meat Inspector JAMS
sen, of ST. Paul. Among the interest
ed spectators were Life Regent Pills
bury, of the state university; Pres
ident Liggett, of the state agricult-
ural school; Drs. Stone, Millard, Alb
bott, Finnell, Rothrock, Kirby, Pom
eroy and Head, of ST. Paul; Drs.
Aldrich, Avery, Alesworth, Drew,
Butler, Hunter, Bracken, Lee and
Brimhall, Of Minneapolis; Dr.Scruby,
of st. Cloud.
KILLED AND CARVED.
When the six animals were brought
out. for slaughter they were tied to
posts on the tops of which were fast
ened the records of each Individual,
giving name, breed, sex, age, weight.
when inoculated normal tempera-
ture at time of incubation, and high
est temperature after reaction had
set in. The six were then killed by
being hit with an ak in the head,
and the butchers proceeded to be-
head, skin and disembowel them.
Inspector Jansen, of st. Paul, one
of the most expert dissectors of cat
tie in Minnesota-who handles a
butcher knife as skillfully and yet
as delicately as an expert penman
handles his pen-irst removed the
liver and lungs from a yearling
shorthorn bull. This animal had
been purchased in Iowa on account
of his high breeding, and was in
tended to head one of the best herds
in Minnesota. He had been pur-
chased subject to test, and was
brought to the station early in June.
On the Goth of June about twenty
five drops of the tuberculin was in
Jected at 10 p. m; tempera ture, 1O2.
Reaction began at o'clock next
morning, and twenty-five hours after
being inoculated his temperature ran
up to 107
AS he stood yesterday he weighed
900 pounds and looked the picture
of health, being in a good, thrifty
condition. But when the lungs and
liver had been placed on a table and
washed clean, the medical gentlemen
at once pointed opteindications of
tuberculosis; and when DR.. Price
used the knife the left lung was
found to be badly diseased. There
was "a cheesy pus and gritty degen-
Grafton, and the small intestines
were affected by tubercles, also the
liver. Pieces of diseased tissue were
passed around among the medical
gentlemen and examined with the
deepest interest.
Next there came to the table the
lungs of a Jersey heifer two years
old, weight $50 pounds. Even the
unframed reportorial eye could see
there was something wrong with
this exhibit. She had been tested
May s, when her temperature was
lO1. The reaction began in ten hours.
and at the sixteenth hour was high
est at little above 106. When laid
out for inspection the two lungs were
extensively diseased. Large ab-
scesses had formed and there was
very little sound lung tissue.
The bellows of richly bred Jersey
Dull were then put up. He had been
Two years old and weighed $40 pounds.
was inoculated with 25 drops of the
lymph April 20, at p. m. temperature
l0l. The reaction came in eleven hours
and at the seventeenth hour tempera
ture was highest at 1O4 Very bad con-
ditions were found In this animal
large assesses in the liver; extensive
tuberculous LESSONS in right lung:
glands of intestines cneesy, and tuber-
cuious masses in nearly every part Of
the exhibit
Three ShorhornS were then opened
and their 'innards'' brought forth for
examination. They were heifers, one
Two years old and two five years old,
weight 500 to LOO pounds. Living.
they had looked to be healthy and in
good condition. Dead. the examina-
ton showed Enthusiastically that they
were diseased.
DIR REYNOLDS TALKS.
Just before the dissection began DR..
Reynolds made an explanation of his
observations in following this special
line of work, and subsequent develop
ments proved that he was correct. AMI
mails may look ali right" he iaid,
"and give no outward physical indica-
ton of tuberculosis: yet be quite seri-
oUsly infected. There are mere for this
test six animals from four different
herds. They have been selected solely
or the tests we have made with the
tubercGiin and we are convinced that
it is reliable. It has also been conciu-
sigely demonstrated tnat lack Of caro-
and the peculiar circumstances OF dii-
ferent cases have more 70 do with inis
matter than breeds"
AfterWard, in COMPENSATION VITA tht