The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-27
SEVENTEEN KILLED
OF the Chandler Herd Of Thorough
breds.
LARGEST NUMBER OF DRESSED
CATTLE KILLED
Since the Orono Slaughter in 'S6-Tables
of the Tuberculin Test-Portland
Safe

Since the Orono Slaughter in 'S6-Tables
of the Tuberculin Test-Portland
Safe.
Last summer the Portland Board Of
Health interviewed Gov. Cleaves in re-
gard to protecting the Portland milk
supply by having the Board of Cattle
Commissioners make investigation of
the herds that supply Portland. AS re-
suit the governor ordered the board Of
cattle commissioners to make such ex-
amiation. The board consists of John
N. Deering of Saco, president; F. o.
H. Bailey of Deering veterinary surgeon.
About the first of September, the board
examined the herd of N. H. Tictomb in
Intervale, New Gloucester, and killed
seven out of herd of ten.
The board of health of New Gloucester,
consisting of Messrs. Gibson and Shurt-
left have been active in their efforts to
purify the town of any diseased cattle
A week ago Wednesday, President John
NJ. Deering and DR.. Bailey of the cattle
commission, accompanied by Messrs.
Gibson an1 Shurtliff, visited the herd of
Fred H. Chandler in New Gloucester and
DR.. Bailey, by physical examination
detected case of tuberculosis in one
COW and killed her, She was badly
diseased.ss AS resultrof this, the board
determined to put the whole herd of
thirty COWS and one bull to the tuber-
1i1,% %oc ioh io fho 10
agent in the discovery of the disease. e
Monday President DeeriDg DR.. Bailey
and Messrs. Gibson and ShurtleT ex-
amined the herd and applied the test by
injecting the tuberculosis with the result
that
SEVENTEEN COWS AND THE BULL,
out of the whole herd of thirty -one
animals were found to be diseased, and
yesterday therefore were killed. The herd
consisted of two Guernseys, two Hol-
stems and twenty seven high grade
Jerseys. 1t was the largest herd in the
town, and consisted mostly OF animals
raised on the Chandler farm. But the
disease was introduced by new animals
and were from imported stock. 4
This tuberculosin is the product of the
tuberculosis bacilli 1t is produced by
feeding the bacilli upon bullion until it
is in a mature condition. 1t is than
stained through tho finest of porcelain
into exhaust cham bers, SO that the germs
or seed are left behind and only this
tuberculin, or what is really the food of
the germ comes through. This is SUBJ
jected to great heat, SO that any stray
germ may be killed.
The following table shows the tuber-
culosis in some of the Chandler herd.
The tuberculin was injected into the
cows at 8 O'Clock last Monday night and
the temperatures were taken every two
hours the next day. The principle of the
tu berculin test is that If there are bacilli
on the COW, the introduction of the tuber-
culin stimulates them to increased
activity and eleyates the temperature.
The normal temperature by the COW is
about 1O1. If the COW is healthy, the
tuberculin has no effect whatever, be-
cause there are no bacilli to be affected
by it. Experiments have shown that if
the temperature is varied between two
and three degrees yet the COW may ne
healthy. The deciInals in the figures in
dictate fifths, not tenths.
The first five COWS were killed; the last
three were healthy. These are simply
typical cases of this Chandler herd:
TEST OF CHANDELIERS HERD.