The Columbus journal., 1895-02-20
How Destroy ruberculoeia.

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owners, breeders and dairymen can il
they will follow certain preventive
measures extirpate this destructive
disease from their herds and keep them
pure from contamination. The mos
important preventive measure il
the stabling of animals, ant
l am sorry to say that tn,
present system used generally is very
defective. Each animal should be
kept separate, SO that they do not come
in contact while in the stable or eat
from the same manger. They should
have plenty Of room in each stall
about 600 cubic feet air space, plenty
of pure air, ventilation from above and
below, the drainage should be perfect
and ~disinfectants used freely, and
daily, especially during the winter
months when animals are housed, in
fact the strictest sanitary measures
should be carried out. Again no ami
mails should be allowed to calve in the
stables with the rest of the herd: they
should be isolated until the calf is
weaned. The water supply should be the
best that can be procured, water away
from the stable or outer buildings used
and not from wells in the center of the
stable (which l have often seem, where
stantly emptying into it, and poliuting
it, thereby p~redispOSing the animal to
disease if not producing it. The attend
ants and mixers should be non-tuber-
culous individuals; and should be
scrupulously clean. Every stock
owner should have his herd undergo q
most critical examination, using the
%tuberculin tests and a special examiDa-
ton of the udders' made, (also the
milk animal by animal, the suspicious
cases to be Immediately isolated, and
only those considered as safe to mingle
together; and their products accepted
when no longer a shadow of suspicion
remains. The suspicious cases should
be kept as far as possible from the
healthy animals, and when they yield
to the most critical tests they should
be destroyed. Fresh animals should
be thoroughly tested before entering
a nOn-tuberculOus herd; the dairyman
should ascertain the history of the ami
NAL; and should not purchase from
herds in which tuberculosis has ap-
peared: or in which cattle have died
from the disease, or been slaughtered
within a year without isClating and
resorting to a thorough test. They
should also have their herds
examined periodically. thereby
keeping their animals free from in
lection. The stock raisers should stop
the great evil, in-and-in breeding: or
in other words, disease breeding dis
easel. The breeding of animals for
fine points, and large milk supply has
been proven that i: is the greatest
diathesis to disease. Probably this ac-
counts for the scarcity of the disease
in the west, where the coarse mixed
breeds are found. These animals are
used for a year or two. then fattened
and slaughtered, while they are young
and desirable beef animals. In order
that the publication of a herd take
place, the foregoing suggestions must
be carried out to the letter; and moth
ing short of this a be trusted to act
satisfactorily. in putting a check upon
the present fearful mortality from this
disease: and when such steps have been
taken by the stock n and dairy
men, then is it time for the govern
ment to give assistance to eXtirpate o
eradicate this disease.
Corn Fodder.
In Farmers Review, Jan. =, %.
Enquiry upon use of shrcdding
cutting corn fodder by re-
cent methods, and storing il in
or bins, elected the fact,
that the fodder must be dry when cut
and stored, as it takes but very little
moisture to damage it to positive in
jury. In reply to a question of stack
ing fodder corn outdoors, was its spoil
ing too much Having cut and
twenty-five annual corn crops
in succession, we find the crop of "a
the greatest sweater yet. Its ears of
corn are brown. somewhat mildewed,
and soft in fiber. grain and cob. 1t
smells as fragrant as brewers malts at
brewing time. The smut is reduced
to a paste like shoe black, and to a
novice is unstable. But steers
.asticate the softened stuff easily,
eat it all. far better than
they do the green, dry, bright portions
sweated. We dare not put it in
barns because it would make the sur
rounding air not, succeeded by spon-
taneous combustion. Outdoors, in
fine two hay wagon loads, in stacks, it
is exposed to every strong wind that
blows, and these keep the stack cooled
for preservation until fed to
the cattle herd. The farmer that
keeps a clean mouth has a correct
taste, hence "a taste plant sugar and
vegetable fats in all kinds
Of fodder with sufficient certainty for
all profitable results. A Yankee phi
losopher, wrote, TITS better not to
know so much, than to know SO many
that are not so."-Richard
Sorghum as Feed.