St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-06-15
COAST DEFENCE MONITOR, MONTEREY. See page g.


out into the pasture. She soon went to
the farther end of the pasture, near a
spring, and stayed around there for three
months. During this time l did not see
her, but heard from her through the boy
who drove the cows. At the end of three
months the calf came down with the
other cows, and a dead cow was re-
ported.
Postmortem Liver full of tubercles
and few small onesin the lungs. kept
the calf eight years, and when killed, not
a tubercle could be found. lift had been
put into tight barn it would not have
lived year. | could fill your journal
with typical cases, which have come
under my observation during the last
half century, where families have been
exposed and none had it, other families
in which some members have had it and
died, and some recovered, after losing a
portion of their lungs. If / had an
animal that thought had it, should
give it an open shed. / once visited a
barn that had stable thirty ieet long,
twelve feet wide, and seven feet high, in
which were kept eleven cows. In cold
nights a door in front was let down,
thus giving the cows only about two
hundred cubic feet each for the night.
Does any one wonder that the commits
sioners took eight out of eleven and
slaughtered them. / have. often been in
new model barns, which were so tight
that water dripped from the ceilings above
like rain. suggested opening more ven
tilators and let out the moist. light, dead
air. 1t was evident to me the moisture
from the cows breath (moist air is
lighter than dry air, and is as 623 is to
1000, for good Northwest dry air) rose
up and condensed on the cool boards
above. There has been a great scare
about milk. l use three pints day. and
am still we'll preserved. / have known
families to use the milk of cow until
she was condemned, and yet not one had
tuberculosis.
We all know that when the wind is
west our fires burn bright, bothin US and
in our heaters, while in really much
warmer days, when the wind is east, it
is hard work to make our fires burn, and
we feel depressed, simply because we do
not get so much oxygen, there being only
half as much pressure to the cubic foot
on such days. 1t is said that we should
keep our stables from so to 60 degrees,
and that from the heat of the cows.
How should we like to stay in hall
where there were enough people crowded
together to keep the hall warm from the
emauations of our bodies: There is a
hundred times more danger in these
tight barns and in our public halls, rail.
road cars, and other places, where we
mingle with the consumptive and breath
his breath, than there is in the milk we
drink. / have often wished that those
persons that have such fad about COM
munion cups, could see what there is in
the air they breath in such places. ]
always expcl all the dead airin my lungs
when get out of such place and let
good fresh air take it's place.
Farmers have been trying to find a per.
feet feed for cows. We never hear them
talk about giving them perfect air, which
is far more essential. We are well aware
do well on one kind Of food. They get
too much dead matter into the system
and get out of fix, and thus easily con.
tract disease. So it is in the lungs; if we
do not give them fresh air we get dead
soil in them. This is just the kind OF sol
the bacilli thrive best in, and they gen.
orally improve such an opportunity to
do good work. The mushroom needs
manure to be in just such condition or II
will not grow, and so it is with the bac
I'LL; but give the lungs all the fresh all
they need and there will be no dead soil
and the bacilli cannot make Judgment
Pure air is composed of about 70 parts
of nitrogen and 81 parts of oxygen, with
a trace of carbonic acid gas, the latter
in large quantities being deadly poison
/ think in a good sized man there ART
about 100000 cells, one half for all
and the other half for blood. The small
est movement we make produces deat
matter. Oxygen has been consumed, ant
while passing from the arteries to thu
veins fire has been burning just as in {
stove. The blood has been deprived o
it's oxygen and filled with carbon, and il
carried back to the blood cells, there t.
undergo change. 1t is now dark ant
full of dead matter. We breath in fresl
air. and process characterization take'
place, the oxygen uniting with the car
bon, forming carbonic acid gas. Thu
blood has been changed into life.givins
blood, while the air has become death
giving, and were we to re-breath it will
no fresh air we should die within fiv
minutes.
The blood has become red and is sen
by the heart over the system for tn
builders to form new matter to take TIL
place of that which has been destroyed
and also to keep up animal heat. Now
if we do not give the cows enough fresl
air to change the blood in the air.cells
we have in the lungs and in the system
what call dead soil, just such soil al
the bacilli must have to make their mes
in for rapid growth. Agood sized COW
will consume 5000 cubic feet of air il
one hour. Ispoke ola barn where tn
commission took eight out Of clever
head. With only 200 cubic feet for {
COW for the night, how could the,
change into good blood what required
{, 900 cubic feet every hour?
This man was carrying out the fad o
keeping the cows warm to his loss.
might say with a vengeance. In reply
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