The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-19
FARMERS EXCHANGE IDEAS
DOING Ir THE SECOND DAY OF THE
 AGRICULTURIL CONVENTION.


 Sheep Discussed by R. <. Hinmnn-Disease Germs in'NIilll and How They Are Caused Valuable Discussions of the Papers Hon. ". E. simond's Interesting Lee ture--New Exhibits Reooived--To-day's Program.
 At 9;3O o'clock yesterday morning the second days session of the Farmers convention and meeting of the state board of agriculture was called to or der by Vice President Wells of the board, a large attendance of farmers leing present After a few preliminary exercises R. $. Einman, president of the : Connecticut Sheep Breeders associa- tion, spoke on "The Present Condition and Prospects of Sheep Husbandry' His paper will be found in full in anoth- CT column. The paper was followed by discussion of the subject in which the following gentlemen took part: Senator Averill of Washington R, E. Buell of
  ator Session of Massachusetts, pr. Bird of Woodstock, Mr. Hoyt of New Ca naan, Mir Chambers of Waterbury, and MT Barber of Pennington, Selectman Baker of Waterbury and MT. Bell of Lyme.
 At 0:30 o'clock John Gould of Aurora Station, O., was to have spoken on ''How Shall we Stable and Care for the Cow" but he was unable to be present, so the time was devoted to general discussion of various phases of fruit culture. T. s. Gold of West Cromwell, secretary of the state board of agriculture led the discussion and spoke on grating. He stated that other trees, nut trees, can be grafted as easily as fruit trees, and expressed to fruit culture, were gone over in the remainder of the discussion.
 AFTERNOON SESSION.
 At p. m. the convention again met and after the question box had been exhausted Dr. H. w. Conn of Middle town lectured on What the Public Has a Right to Demand of the Milk Producer" After some preliminary re- marks pr. Conn said that the diseases which can be distributed in milk are but few. Of the chief one about which there is the greatest public agitation at present is tuberculosis. The qdes- tions relating to this disease have not yet been definitely settled It has, however b en demonstrated, that germs of the disease are carried in milk. The number of cows affected with the dis ease has been variously estimated as from 1 per cent. to 80 per cent. of the entire number of cattle in the herds of the country. Although these estimates vary greatly we know that there are some infected with the germs. If a COW has tuberculosis she may spread the disease among those who drink her milk, but if her udder is effected by the disease she will spread the disease if her milk is used. The truth of this statement has been demonstrated on guinea pigs and calves, and experiments in the human race are not wanting. In a boarding house in Paris eight young ladies were suddenly taken with consumption and on investigation it was found that they had all used the milk from one COW, which was infect ed with tuberculosis. A large number of the deaths of young children in Paris is undoubtedly due to tuberculo- sis, not necessarily of the lungs, but of the digestive organs. We have al present little to prove that healthy per. sens contract tuberculosis from milk but the evidence is conclusive that del icate persons do. Just as soon as a veterinary discovers that a COW has tu, berculosis she should not be allowed to furnish milk to the public She may do no harm but runs the risk of doing SO, and should be excluded from the dairy.
 Another disease spread by milk is typhoid fever, and is more common than tuberculosis for the reason tha- the tuberculosis germ cannot grow 1T milk while the fever germ can. Tuber culosis germs, if left in milk for some time, die, but fever germs thrive, and i there are half dozen in a quart of mill when it is drawn, by the time it gets tt the customer there are hundred germ! in it. Typhoid undoubtedly in many cases springs from the milk supply, anC the fact has been fully demonstrated When investigation prove that germ are in milk people often ask if they have ever been found in milk In an sWer to this, germs can be found onl, under certain circumstances and only with great difficulty. The first thns to be done in eradicatirg the germ is to discover their source. In many cases this seems to be directly a ty phcid fever case, that is when the dairy man nurses a fever case and the germ injecting his clothing and hands ar inparted to the milk by washing tn cans and by the various processes o preparing the milk for customers
 Another source of the germs is iron the water used washing the cans an afterward in the water used to dilut the milk, more especially from we water. The farmers well has undoubt edly been the cause of much typhoi fever. Scarlet fever and diphtheri germs are also distributed in milk, al though the latter less frequently tha the former. Both these diseases fire quently are found in cows and whe this is the case the udder usually show some little eruption or infammator contamination Outside of the fou diseases mentioned there are no dis eases of n1Ich imnDrfauce dfs+rihute